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Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt


Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt (18 January 1815 – 11 August 1844), was a British peer and Conservative Party politician. Powerscourt was the son of Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt, and Frances Theodosia, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden. Through the Wingfield line he was a descendant of the Noble House of Stratford. Powerscourt succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1823. However, as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He was
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Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt


Mervyn Edward Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt (13 October 1836 – 5 June 1904) was an Irish peer. He became Viscount Powerscourt in 1844 on the death of his father Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt. Through this Wingfield line he was a maternal descendant of the Noble House of Stratford. His mother was Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden. On 26 April 1864, Wingfield married Lady Julia Coke, the daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester. They had five children
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Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt


Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt (24 December 1730 – 8 August 1788) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Powerscourt was a younger son of Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt and Dorothy Beresford Rowley. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1746. He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Wicklow County from 1761 to 1764. That year he succeeded his brother, Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt, in his titles and assumed his
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Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (third creation)


Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt PC (I) (19 August 1697 – 21 October 1751) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Powerscourt was the son of the politician Edward Wingfield and his wife, Eleanor Gore, a daughter of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet. He was a descendant of the uncle of Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Boyle between 1727 and 1743. On 4 February 1743 he was elevated to the Peerage of
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Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt


Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt (16 July 1880 – 21 March 1947) was an Irish peer. Wingfield was born to Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, whom he succeeded as Viscount Powerscourt in 1904. He was commissioned in the Irish Guards in February 1901, and promoted to Lieutenant on 3 July 1901. The Irish Guards had been created in 1900, and Wingfield was chosen to carry the colours at the first presentation of Colours to the Regiment on 30 May 1902, following which he was appointed a Member of
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Ireland as Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt in County Wicklow, and Baron Wingfield, of Wingfield in County Wexford, and he assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. In 1746 he was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. On 13 April 1727 he married Dorothy Beresford Rowley, and together they had four children. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Edward. Edward was in turn succeeded by the first Viscount's second son, Richard. Powerscourt was responsible for commissioning the German architect
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Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt


Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (2 November 1642 – c. 5 February 1717), was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. He was the son of Richard Wingfield and Elizabeth Folliott, a daughter of Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott. William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon, was his younger halfbrother. Wingfield served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Wicklow County between 1661 and 1665. On 22 February 1665, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Powerscourt and assumed his seat
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Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt


Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt (11 September 1790 – 9 August 1823) was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was the son of Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt and Lady Catherine Meade, daughter of John Meade, 1st Earl of Clanwilliam. On 19 July 1809 he succeeded to his father's titles in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1821, he was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords. In August 1821 Powerscourt hosted George IV at his family home, Powerscourt House
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Viscount Powerscourt


Viscount Powerscourt ( ) is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland, each time for members of the Wingfield family. It was created first in 1618 for the Chief Governor of Ireland, Richard Wingfield. However, this creation became extinct on his death in 1634. It was created a second time in 1665 for Folliott Wingfield. He was the great-great-grandson of George Wingfield, uncle of the first Viscount of the 1618 creation. However, the 1665 creation also became extinct on the
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Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt


Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt (23 October 1729 – 6 May 1764), styled The Honourable Edward Wingfield between 1744 and 1751, was an Irish politician. Wingfield was the son of Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, by Dorothy Beresford Rowley, daughter of Hercules Rowley, of Summerhill, County Meath. he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1751. This was an Irish peerage and gave him a seat in the Irish House of Lords. However, he
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Powerscourt House, Dublin


Powerscourt House is the former Dublin townhouse of Viscount Powerscourt, It is located on South William Street. It was constructed in the eighteenth century for Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt (1730-1788). He was a member of the Irish House of Lords. The townhouse enabled him and his family to stay there when they were visiting from their Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. Within a couple of years of the abolition of the Parliament of Ireland, the viscount sold this Dublin residence since he received his seat now
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Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (first creation)


Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, PC (1550 – 9 September 1634) was an English-born army officer and military administrator during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He is notable for his defeat of Sir Cahir O'Doherty's forces at the 1608 Battle of Kilmacrennan during O'Doherty's Rebellion in Ireland. Sir Richard Wingfield was the son of Sir Richard Wingfield, Governor of Portsmouth, who was descended from an old Suffolk family, and Christian, daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, Castor, Northamptonshire, and sister
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was completely rebuilt by Cassels, starting in 1730 and finishing in 1741. The demesne was approximately . The three-story house had at least 68 rooms. The entrance hall was long and wide where family heirlooms were displayed. The main reception rooms were on the first floor rather than more typically on the ground floor. King George IV was the guest of Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt in August 1821. Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt inherited the title and the Powerscourt estate, which comprised of land in Ireland, at
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Powerscourt Estate


domed towers. King George IV was the guest of Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt in August 1821. In the 1830s, the house was the venue for a number of conferences on unfulfilled Bible prophecies, which were attended by men such as John Nelson Darby and Edward Irving. These conferences were held under the auspices of Theodosia Wingfield Powerscourt, then the dowager Lady Powerscourt. Her letters and papers were republished in 2004, including summaries of the Powerscourt prophetic conferences. In 1844, at the age of 8, Mervyn Wingfield,
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Viscount Powerscourt


death of its first holder in 1717. It was created for a third time in 1744 for Richard Wingfield, along with title of Baron Wingfield, of Wingfield in the County of Wexford. He was the grandson of Lewis Wingfield, uncle of the first Viscount of the 1665 creation. Richard Wingfield had earlier represented Boyle in the Irish House of Commons. His eldest son, the second Viscount, represented Stockbridge in the British House of Commons. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Viscount, who married into the
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Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, 9th Viscount Powerscourt


Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, 9th Viscount Powerscourt (22 August 1905 – 1973) was an Irish peer. He was son of Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt and Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie. He married Sheila Claude Beddington on 16 December 1932 in Jerusalem and They had three children, a daughter and two sons, Grania Langrishe, the heir Mervyn and Guy Wingfield. The second world war had a huge impact on the family. Viscount Powerscourt served in the war and was captured by the Germans in Italy. When he came home his
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Lewis Strange Wingfield


Lewis Strange Wingfield (1842–1891) was an Irish traveller, actor, writer, and painter. The third and youngest son of Richard Wingfield, 6th Viscount Powerscourt, by his wife, Lady Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, eldest daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, he was born on 25 February 1842, and educated at Eton College and Bonn University. He was intended for the army, but gave up the career at the request of his mother, after her second marriage to Frederick Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry the
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House of Stratford


son, named Stratford Canning. He had a son sometime after 1734, also named Stratford Canning, who had a son in 1786, also named Stratford Canning, who was created 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe on 24 April 1852. Lady "Amelia Stratford" was the daughter of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough. On 7 September 1760 she married Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt, and took his name; it is from this maternal Stratford lineage that the current Viscount Powerscourt descends. The Stratford descendant Viscounts Powerscourt are as
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Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (first creation)


, killing him and dispersing his followers. For this success Sir Richard was on 29 June 1609 rewarded by a grant of the Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow. In the Parliament of Ireland of 1613–15, he sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Downpatrick. On 19 February 1618 he was created Viscount Powerscourt, and he subsequently enjoyed several important offices under the Crown. He married Frances Rugge, (or Repps), (died before 30 November 1631), daughter of William Rugge, (or Repps),
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the Royal Victorian Order (MVO). He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Wicklow on 15 February 1910 and created a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 18 April 1916. Lord Powerscourt died on 21 March 1947. In 1903, he married Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie: they had three children, including Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, 9th Viscount Powerscourt. Lady Powerscourt served as the Girl Guides Deputy Chief Commissioner for Ireland. Through the Wingfield line he was a descendant of the Noble House of Stratford. He is a great-grandfather
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Charles Wingfield


of Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt, was the third son of Edward Rhys Wingfield who had inherited Barrington Park, near Great Barrington, Gloucestershire, from his maternal grandfather George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor (members of the Wingfield family still own Barrington Park). In 1905 Charles Wingfield married Lucy Evelyn, elder daughter of Sir Edmund Fane, also a diplomat; later that year her sister Etheldred Constantia Fane married another diplomat, Horace Rumbold. Charles Wingfield was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
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was a trained barrister, and was elected as a Bencher of King's Inns in Dublin in 1767. On 3 September that same year he was created Earl of Howth and Viscount St Lawrence, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland in 1768. He married Isabella King, daughter of Sir Henry King, 3rd Baronet and Isabella Wingfield, daughter of Edward Wingfield and sister of Richard,1st Viscount Powerscourt on 17 November 1750. Together they had six children. His eldest son predeceased
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Powerscourt Estate


late Ralph Slazenger, married the 10th Viscount, Mervyn Niall Wingfield, in 1962. Through her children, the 11th Viscount - Mervyn Anthony Wingfield - and the Hon. Julia Wingfield, there remains a strong connection between the two families and Powerscourt Estate. The house was destroyed by fire on 4 November 1974 and was subsequently renovated in 1996. Only two rooms are open to the public as they once appeared while Powerscourt had residents, while the rest of ground floor and first floor are now retail units. In 2011, the
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Powerscourt Estate


of the Powerscourt family. The family rose in wealth and prominence, and in the 18th century Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt commissioned the architect Richard Cassels to extensively alter and remodel the medieval castle to create a modern country house. Work started in 1731 and finished in 1741. On a commanding hilltop position, Cassels deviated slightly from his usual sombre style, giving the house something of what John Vanbrugh would have called the 'castle air.' This is most noticeable in the structure's severe palladian facade bookended by two circular
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Jannion Steele Elliott


Sheldon, of Moorcroft, Barnt Green, Worcestershire, and former wife of Captain Mervyn Edward John Wingfield-Stratford (1883-1922), of the Worcester Regiment. Captain Mervyn Wingfield-Stratford was the first cousin of Georgina Grace Ida Wingfield-Stratford, wife of Elliott's son, William Jannion Elliott; the Wingfield-Stratfords descended from the politicians Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt and John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough. Their daughter, Petronilla, married Peter Trustram Eve, son of the 1st Baron Silsoe. Elliott
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Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet


The 3rd Viscount Powerscourt and Harriet Esther Westenra, on 19 October 1819. The couple had 2 sons and 8 daughters, at least 2 of which died in infancy. The children were buried at Powerscourt. He seemed to have good relationships with his children, who called their father "Taffy", they included William, Edward Wingfield, Amelia, Frederica, Cecelia, Frances Elizabeth, Harriet Jane Isabella, and Constantina Henrietta Frances. William, his first son, helped him with his political work and became a member of Parliament
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Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (first creation)


of Felmingham, Norfolk, and Thomasine Townshend, and widow of Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell. Frances Cromwell, the elder of her two daughters, married Sir John Wingfield of Tickencote, Rutland in January 1619. Her younger daughter, Anne Cromwell, married her husband's cousin, Sir Edward Wingfield of Carnew, County Wicklow on 9 May 1619. He died 9 September 1634, without issue from his wife, Frances and his title therefore became extinct. His estates passed to his cousin, Sir Edward Wingfield. The title
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Robert King, 1st Baron Kingsborough


Robert King, 1st Baron Kingsborough (18 February 1724 – 22 May 1755), known as Sir Robert King, Bt, between 1740 and 1748, was an Irish landowner and politician. King was the elder son of Sir Henry King, 3rd Baronet, by Isabella Wingfield, daughter of Edward Wingfield and sister of Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1740. In 1744 he was returned to the Irish Parliament for Boyle, a seat he held until 1748, when, aged only
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Enniskerry


hourly to Bray, the nearest large town. The 44 Dublin Bus route connects the village with Dublin City Centre. The Protestant population of the village attended church in the grounds of the Powerscourt Demesne until 1859. Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt built a new church, Saint Patrick's, in the village which was completed two years later, in 1861. This coincided with an extensive renovation programme that also established the Italian gardens at Powerscourt. The Viscount Powerscourt claimed the old church following the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland by
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Joseph Holt (rebel)


at Powerscourt for Lord Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt with the Dublin Castle authorities with a view to a negotiated surrender. Dublin Castle was eager to end the rebellion in Wicklow and allow him exile after incarceration in the Bermingham Tower without trial in New South Wales. Bank of Ireland Peter La Touche paid for his pregnant (with Joseph Harrison) wife Hester and first born son Joshua Holt's passage and for their daughter Maryanne to be educated in Ireland. Holt went out on the "Minerva", (along with Henry Fulton
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Powerscourt Estate


Powerscourt (sl.1603), seeking to draw Phelim McCartan into an act of rebellion, the penalty for which was forfeiture. The feud climaxed on the 14 May 1603 when the Wingfields murdered Phelim in the place known as the Killing Hollow near Powerscourt, despite the fact that Phelim's grandson and heir Turlough son of Phelim's son (d.1616) remained in occupation of Powerscourt. King James I of England (d.1625) on 27 October 1603 granted a lease of the manor of Powerscourt for 21 years to Sir Richard Wingfield for a
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Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (first creation)


of Sir William Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy of Ireland. He became the step-son of Sir George Delves, after his mother's remarriage. He came to Ireland as a military adventurer in the latter part of the 16th century and afterwards fought in Flanders, France and Portugal, gaining the military rank of lieutenant colonel. Returning to Ireland, Wingfield distinguished himself and was wounded in an expedition against Tyrone, and was knighted by the Lord Deputy, William Russell, in Christ Church Cathedral on 9 November 1595. He served as
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pepperpot of Lady Wingfield. Of particular note is the pets cemetery, whose tombstones have been described as "astonishingly personal". Inspiration for the garden design followed visits by Powerscourt to ornamental gardens at the Palace of Versailles, Schönbrunn Palace near Vienna, and Schwetzingen Castle near Heidelberg. The garden development took 20 years to complete in 1880. In 1961, the estate, was sold by the 9th Viscount, Mervyn Patrick Wingfield, to the Slazenger family, who still own it to this day. Wendy Slazenger, daughter of the
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Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell


Cromwell, later 1st Viscount Lecale who was created Earl of Ardglass in the Irish peerage on 15 April 1645. The Barony of Cromwell was held by the 1st Viscount Lecale from 22 November 1624 and by the Earls of Ardglass from 15 April 1645 until 26 November 1687, when, on the death of Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass and 7th Baron Cromwell, both titles became extinct. His widow, Frances, later married Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt. She died before 30 November 1631. Edward Cromwell’s son
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George Barret Sr.


is based on the "Tempietto del Clitunno" a temple on the river Clitunnonear Spoleto, in central Umbria, north of Rome. Following work for Samuel Madden and the Earl of Milltown, Barret started to produce paintings of Irish landscapes. These portrayed the actual landscape and not cappricio scenery. This was a natural progression from his previous idealised Italianate scenery. Barret is particularly associated with Edward Wingfield who in 1751 became Viscount Powerscourt. Wingfield owned Powerscourt House and extensive estates to the south of Dublin in County Wicklow. These included the
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Sheila Wingfield


in response to the war, "Beat Drum, Beat Heart" (1946). Her husband came into his inheritance of the Powerscourt Estate in March 1947, when he succeeded as The 9th Viscount Powerscourt. She became the leader of Irish Girl Guides and helped catalogue the Chester Beatty Library. Her marriage never recovered from the impact of the war, however. In 1963 she left her husband and, as a result of the financial impact, the family sold Powerscourt. Lady Powerscourt lived after that in hotels in Bermuda,
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Sir William Verner, 2nd Baronet


Sir William Verner, 2nd Baronet (4 April 1822 – 10 January 1873), was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician. Sir William Verner was the son of Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet, and of Harriet Wingfield, daughter of Colonel Edward Wingfield, who was the younger son of The 3rd Viscount Powerscourt. After serving in the Coldstream Guards in 1841, Verner married on 6 August 1850 Mary Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham. Their children included William, Edith and Alice
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Grania Langrishe


Grania Sybil Enid, Lady Langrishe (born 1934), is an Irish botanical illustrator and artist. Born Grania Sybil Enid Wingfield on 25 April 1934 to the Right Honourable The 9th Viscount Powerscourt (he succeeded to the peerage in March 1947) and Sheila Claude Beddington. She married Sir Hercules Ralph Hume Langrishe, 7th Baronet, on 21 April 1955. The couple had four children, the youngest of whom is the artist Atalanta Pollock. Though she grew up at the Powerscourt Estate, her mother, Lady Powerscourt, moved the
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Susan Barrantes


slaves in Jamaica and Barbados. He was also known for his role as a philanthropist. He was Susan's great-great-grandfather. Susan's maternal grandfather was Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt. Susan was the youngest of four children, with two sisters, Brigid and Davinia, and a brother, Bryan. Brigid married Julian Salmond, son of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Salmond and the Hon. Monica Grenfell. Davinia married firstly Sir Richard Boughey 10th Bt, and secondly Spencer Loch, 4th Baron
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Sheila Wingfield


around her, again at her father's insistence. Her cousins included the Jewish literary figures Violet Schiff and Ada Leverson, and her grandfather was born Alfred Henry Moses. In 1932 she married The Hon. Mervyn Patrick Wingfield (1905–1973), later The 9th Viscount Powerscourt, in Jerusalem. They had three children, a daughter and two sons: Grania Langrishe, Mervyn and Guy Wingfield. Her poems were first published in "The Dublin Magazine" of 1937. Although initially supportive, her husband later requested her not to be
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Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (first creation)


a colonel in the expedition against Calais, and in 1600 was advanced to the office of Marshal of Ireland, with a retinue of fifty horse and a company of foot. In 1601 he led a force at the reduction of Kinsale, and was one of those who signed the articles of capitulation made between the Lord Deputy of Ireland and Don Juan del Águila, commander of the Spanish troops made prisoners on that occasion. In May 1608 during O'Doherty's Rebellion he marched into Ulster against Sir Cahir O'Doherty, who had burnt Derry
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Knocktopher


Grania Wingfield, daughter of The 9th Viscount Powerscourt. They had four children, including one son who succeeded him in 1998 - Sir James Hercules Langrishe, the 8th Baronet (1957-). The 9th Baronet heir apparent is the present holder’s son, Richard James Hercules Langrishe (1988-). It has a soccer club - Southend United. Its hurling club is Ballyhale Shamrocks. Knocktopher GAA Hurling Club amalgamated with Ballyhale Shamrocks and Knockmoylan GAA Clubs in 1972. The late Fr Anthony Heaslip, brother of Knocktopher man, Denis Heaslip
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Viscount Powerscourt


House of Stratford (from which all latter holders of the Powerscourt Viscountcy descend). The latter's grandson, the fifth Viscount, sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1821 to 1823. His son, the sixth Viscount, sat as a Member of Parliament for Bath. On his death the titles passed to his son, the seventh Viscount, who was an Irish Representative Peer from 1865 to 1885. The latter year he was created Baron Powerscourt, of Powerscourt in the County of Wicklow, in
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Benburb


Shane O'Neill, circa 1558, at the base of a limestone cliff overlooking the River Blackwater, the border between County Tyrone and County Armagh. The castle is in excellent condition having been recently restored and stands in the grounds of the imposing Servite Priory, a religious order based in the village. Wingfield was made Viscount Powerscourt in 1618 and the estate remained in the Wingfield family until sold in 1877 to Belfast distiller James Bruce, who died in 1917. It then went to his brother who sold it. The manor house passed
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office of High Sheriff of Dorset in 1942. Van de Weyer married the Hon. Olive Elizabeth Wingfield (1885–1978), eldest daughter of Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, on 17 December 1908. She bore him five children, three daughters, Myrtle (1910-1997), Daphne (1911-2000) and Jasmine (1914-?), and two sons, Sylvain (1917-?) and Adrian (1919-1940), the latter killed in action in the Pas de Calais in 1940 aged 20. Major
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Sylvain Van de Weyer


he was the grandfather of Major William John Bates van de Weyer (1870–1946), who was responsible for Buddleja × weyeriana. William married Hon. Olive Elizabeth Wingfield, eldest daughter of Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt. Through his daughter Alice, he was the grandfather of Ruth Brand (d. 1967), who married John Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton (parents of John Dodson, 3rd Baron Monk Bretton); Lt.-Col. John Charles Brand (1885–1929), who married Lady Rosabelle Millicent St. Clair-Erskine, the
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William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon


Folliott Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, was his older halfbrother on his mother's side. He also had an older halfbrother, John, on his father's side. Bessborough, formerly known as Kildalton, had been confiscated from Edmund Dalton, whose family had held it since the 13th century, for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. It was granted to Sir John Ponsonby who renamed it after his second wife Elizabeth (Bess). William Ponsonby matriculated as a fellow-commoner at Trinity College, Dublin, on
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Richard Wingfield-Baker


Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker (sometimes Richard Baker Wingfield Baker or Richard Wingfield Baker; born Richard Baker Wingfield) (1802 – 25 March 1880) MP, DL, was a Liberal Party politician, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant in the English county of Essex. Like his father, maternal grandfather, half-brother, and brother-in-law, Wingfield-Baker served as a Member of Parliament. His parents were William Wingfield 1772 - 1858), MP for Bodmin, and Lady Charlotte-Maria (died 1807
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Powerscourt Estate


Powerscourt Estate (), located in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland, is a large country estate which is noted for its house and landscaped gardens, today occupying 19 hectares (47 acres). The house, originally a 13th-century castle, was extensively altered during the 18th century by German architect Richard Cassels, starting in 1731 and finishing in 1741. A fire in 1974 left the house lying as a shell until it was renovated in 1996. Foreword, the Wingfields had long coveted the lands of Phelim McCartan of
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Sheila Wingfield


The Rt Hon. Sheila Wingfield, Viscountess Powerscourt ("née" Sheila Claude Beddington; 23 May 1906 – 8 January 1992), was an Anglo-Irish poet. Lady Powerscourt was born in Hampshire and attended the Roedean School. She attended art school in Paris. She was the daughter of Major Claude Beddington and Frances Ethel (née Homan-Mulock). Ethel was the daughter of a Protestant family from County Offaly, whose homes included the Bellair and Ballycumber estates, where Lady Powerscourt spent most of her childhood summer
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Richard Cassels


severe palladian facade terminated by two circular domed towers. The house was destroyed by fire in 1974 when it was owned by the Slazenger family and renovated in 1996. In the 1830s, the house was the venue for a number of conferences on unfulfilled Bible prophecies, which were attended by men such as John Nelson Darby and Edward Irving. These conferences were held under the auspices of Theodosia Wingfield Powerscourt, then the widow Lady Powerscourt. Cassels designed this Dublin town house for Marcus Beresford, Earl of Tyrone, in Marlborough Street between
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Robert Hunter (painter)


Lord Naas. [Earl of Mayo, K.P., Palmerstown.] Engraved in mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1777. William, Lord Newbattel, afterwards 5th Marquess of Lothian. Engraved in mezzotint by E. Fisher, 1769, Robertus Hunter Dublinii pinxt.1762. Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Bart. [Earl of Inchiquin.] Lady O'Brien. [Earl of Inchiquin.] Richard, Viscount Powerscourt. [Viscount Powerscourt.] Formerly at Santry Court. Nicholas, Lord Taaffe; full-length in robes. Painted in 1763 and obtained
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House of Stratford


follows: When Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough (Amelia's brother) died in 1801 he bequeathed the bulk of his estate to Amelia's grandson (his nephew, too junior to inherit the Powerscourt Viscountcy) on the proviso that he took back the Stratford name, thus becoming John Wingfield-Stratford in 1802. This line inherited Stratford House in London, and Amelia lived there until her death in 1831. It was sold in 1832. Notable Wingfield-Stratfords include: Esmé Cecil's daughter (Roshnara) married Richard
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Kilshanny


waste the countryside around Corcomroe". Honora, daughter of Teige of Smithstown, by marriage became Honora Wingfield, ancestor of the family that held the title of Viscount Powerscourt. The castle is today available for rental as tourist accommodation. The ruined abbey church of Kilshanny is all that remains of an abbey that may have been founded by early Christian Seanach Garbh, but is traditionally ascribed to St Cuanna. In 1194, the abbey became subservient to Corcomroe Abbey and was dedicated to St Augustine. Its abbot, Florence, was named
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Yeldersley Hall, Derbyshire


they had two sons and six daughters. They are both shown in the photograph below at Yeldersley Hall with some of their grandchildren. Their eldest son Fitzherbert Wright (1905-1975) who spent his childhood at the Hall was the grandfather of the Duchess of York. He was married in 1928 to Doreen Wingfield, the daughter of the 8th Viscount of Powerscourt. Their wedding photograph is shown. They had four children the youngest of whom was Susan Barrantes. Henry's youngest daughter was Muriel Joyce Wright (1909-1944)
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the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This peerage gave him and his descendants an automatic seat in the House of Lords until the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. His son, the eighth Viscount, served as Lord Lieutenant of County Wicklow and was a member of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the eleventh Viscount, who succeeded his father in 2015. The family seat was the once vast Powerscourt House, near Enniskerry, County Wicklow. The heir
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Martin Ferdinand Quadal


During this period, he also painted a portrait of Richard, 4 Viscount Powerscourt, which is currently housed at Powerscourt. From Dublin he went to London, where he exhibited four works at the Society of Artists in 1791. He etched a "Group of Cats", a "Child with a Dog", and "Studies from Domestic and Wild Animals" (London, 1793). He then visited France and Italy, lived and worked in Vienna in 1787-9, and in St. Petersburg in 1797-1804
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Thomas Cromwell, 3rd Earl of Ardglass


Thomas Cromwell, 3rd Earl of Ardglass (29 November 1653 – 11 April 1682), was an English nobleman, the only son of Wingfield Cromwell, 2nd Earl of Ardglass of Ilam, Staffordshire and Mary Russell. He held the subsidiary titles of 3rd Viscount Lecale and 6th Baron Cromwell of Oakham. He succeeded to the titles of 6th Baron Cromwell of Oakham, in the Peerage of England (1540), 3rd Viscount Lecale, in Ulster, in the Peerage of Ireland (1624) and 3rd Earl of Ardglass, in
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John Nelson Darby


the Church of Ireland around 1831. He participated in the 1831–33 Powerscourt Conference, an annual meeting of Bible students organized by his friend, the wealthy widow Lady Powerscourt (Theodosia Wingfield Powerscourt). At the conference Darby publicly described his ecclesiological and eschatological views, including the pretribulation rapture. For about 40 years William Kelly (1821–1906) was his chief interpreter and continued to be a staunch supporter until his own death. Kelly in his work "John Nelson Darby as I knew him" stated that "a saint more true to
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Powerscourt Estate


Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle. and the Astolat Dollhouse Castle. Powerscourt Waterfall and its surrounding valley are also owned by the Powerscourt estate, although the two pieces of land are no longer directly connected. At 121 metres, it is the highest waterfall in Ireland. In 1858, the seventh Viscount Powerscourt established a deer park around the waterfall, resulting in the successful introduction of the Japanese Sika to Ireland. Regular bus service from Powerscourt to the waterfall was discontinued in 2005, though during the high summer season,
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Edward Maria Wingfield


i.e. overdressed, full of humour and laughter but liable to mood swings. Smith's views of President Wingfield were repeated by John Oldmixon in 1708, then further downgraded by the author of his entry in the (British) Dictionary of Biography of 1880, and more so by Barbour (1964), Smith's biographer. Barbour was obsessively anti-Wingfield, describing him as an aristocrat (i.e. a baron, marquess, viscount, earl or duke), which Wingfield was not, nor before 1618 had any member of his
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Lord Francis Powerscourt


to investigate. Spring 1914, and Jack Harper, current owner of Melrose Hall, has thrown a party for his eldest, Andrew, who is turning twenty-one. But the following morning there is no sign of Richard O'Connor. More than just a stable-boy, Richard acts as the legs of the paralyzed Jack Harper, pushing him around the estate in his wheelchair and sharing with him an affinity with the family's stable of thoroughbreds. The police aren't interested in the disappearance of a servant so Powerscourt is
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William Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett


Hugh de Melville, and they had one son, William John Lydston Poulett, Viscount Hinton, born 11 September 1883, and two daughters, Eleanor Augusta Rosa, born 9 October 1879, and Violet Nita, born 5 October 1880. His daughter Lady Violet married Cecil John Talbot Rhys Wingfield and was the mother of Edward William Rhys Wingfield (1905–1984). A son, William Turnour Thomas Poulett, had been born to his first wife on 15 December 1849, at Southsea, Hampshire, only six months after their marriage,
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American Left


parties. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a political party that formed after a 1995 ideological rupture with Workers World Party over the issue of their support of the Fidel Castro government in Cuba, The SEP are composed of Trotskyists and are affiliated with the World Socialist Web Site. With fewer than one thousand members in 1996, the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) was the second largest Marxist–Leninist party in the United States. Formed by supporters of Leon Trotsky, they believed that the Soviet Union and other Communist
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Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam


Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam KB, PC, FRS (24 July 1711 - 25 May 1776, Mount Merrion), was an Irish peer and property developer. FitzWilliam was the eldest son of Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam, by Frances Shelley, daughter of Sir John Shelley, 3rd Baronet. He replaced his father as Vice-Admiral of Leinster in 1728. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1743 and took his seat in the Irish House of Lords. He was knighted KB in 1744 and elected a
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Powerscourt Estate


estate has been owned by the Slazenger family, founders and former owners of the Slazenger sporting goods business, since 1961. It is a popular tourist attraction, and includes Powerscourt Golf Club, an Avoca Handweavers restaurant, and an Autograph Collection Hotel. There is also Powerscourt House, Dublin, which was the townhouse of the viscount. The original owner of the 13th-century castle was a man by the name of La Poer, which was eventually anglicised to "Power." The castle's position was of strategic military importance
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Powerscourt Estate


7th Viscount Powerscourt inherited the title and the Powerscourt estate, which comprised 200 km² (49,000 acres) of land in Ireland. When he reached the age of 21, he embarked on an extensive renovation of the house and created the new gardens. Main attractions on the grounds include the Tower Valley (with stone tower), Japanese gardens, winged horse statues, Triton Lake, pet cemetery, Dolphin Pond, walled gardens, Bamberg Gate and the Italian Garden. The Pepperpot Tower is said to be designed after a favoured 3-inch
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Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope


Arthur Philip Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope (13 September 1838 – 19 April 1905), was a British Conservative Party politician. From 1855 to 1875 he was styled Viscount Mahon. He was a son of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope by his wife Emily Harriet Kerrison. As Viscount Mahon, he sat for a few months of 1868 as a Member of Parliament for Leominster and returned to the Commons as member for Suffolk East from 1870 to 1875. He was Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in 1875
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Martin Wingfield


Martin Wingfield (born 1951) is a long-standing figure on the far right in British politics. He and his wife, Tina Wingfield, have contested several elections. Disillusioned with the Liberal Party, Wingfield joined the National Front in 1976 and quickly rose in the party, winning election to the National Directorate in 1980. He became editor of the "National Front News" for a time, from 1983. He was briefly expelled from the party by John Tyndall after attempting to take control of the Sussex branch of the
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Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam


Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1 August 1745 – 4 February 1816) was an Irish viscount in the FitzWilliam family, who was a benefactor and musical antiquarian. He founded the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, with a bequest of his library and art collection on his death in 1816. He was also a significant developer of his time in Dublin, Ireland. Richard FitzWilliam was baptised on 22 August 1745. He was the eldest son of Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam, and his wife Catherine Decker, daughter
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Anthony Wingfield


Sir Anthony Wingfield (died 15 August 1552) MP KG PC of Letheringham, Suffolk, was an English soldier, politician, courtier and member of parliament. He was the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 1551 to 1552, and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the reign of Edward VI. Anthony Wingfield was born before 1488, the first son of Sir John Wingfield of Letheringham and Anne, daughter of John Tuchet, 6th Lord Audley. By 1509 he had been appointed an esquire of the body, and attended the funeral
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William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon


William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon (1659 – 17 November 1724), was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was born in 1659, the third son of Sir John Ponsonby (c. 1608/9 – 1678) of Bessborough in County Kilkenny, a colonel of Horse in the Commonwealth service, and the third son by Sir John's second wife Elizabeth, widow of Richard Wingfield and of Edward Trevor, and daughter of Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott. He had two full siblings, Henry and Elizabeth, and two halfbrothers.
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Edward Maria Wingfield


Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as "Edward-Maria Wingfield" (1550 in Stonely Priory, near Kimbolton – 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America. He was the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, and the grandson of Richard Wingfield. Captain John Smith wrote that from 1602 to 1603 Wingfield was one of the early and prime movers and organisers in ""showing great charge and industry"" in getting the Virginia Venture moving: he was one of the four
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Margaret Wingfield


Margaret Elizabeth Wingfield (19 January 1912 – 6 April 2002) was a British Liberal Party politician and President of the Liberal Party from 1975-1976. Wingfield was educated at Freiburg University and the London School of Economics. She was a social worker and housewife. She was the niece of the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Charles McCurdy. Her granddaughter is Carita Ogden, who is a Liberal Democrat Councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth. Wingfield was active internally with the Liberal Party. She served on the Liberal Party
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Jacques Wingfield


Jacques Wingfield (1519–1587) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and public official of the Tudor era. He is also sometimes known as John Wingfield or Jack Wingfield. He was the son of Richard Wingfield and Bridget Wingfield, who was the heiress of Stone Castle. He spent much of his youth in Calais, which was then an English possession. Fluent in French he spent time in Paris at the French court. In 1553 he briefly sat as a Member of Parliament for Taunton. Following the death of his patron Stephen Gardiner
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Naresh Balyan


Naresh Balyan () is an Indian politician and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India. He represents the Uttam Nagar constituency of New Delhi and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. Naresh Balyan was born in Delhi. He attended the Haryana Shakti Senior Secondary School and attained ninth grade degree. Naresh Balyan has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Uttam Nagar constituency and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party political party. On 21 Sep 2015, Balyan complained to police
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Robert Wingfield (diplomat)


Wingfield was despatched again on a mission to Maximilian, and in August following he and Silvester de Giglis, bishop of Worcester, were nominated ambassadors to a council convoked by Pope Julius II at the Lateran. The intention of the pope was to form a league against France, which Henry joined on 17 November The council was not actually opened till May 1512. Wingfield remained with the Emperor at Brussels and elsewhere, and does not appear to have attended its sittings. On 30 Sep Maximilian, hearing that Julius II was ill,
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Anthony Wingfield (MP for Ripon)


Anthony Wingfield (1550?–1615?), one of a number of figures from the same family of his period, was an English scholar and Member of Parliament, known as reader in Greek to Queen Elizabeth I. Born probably in or soon after 1550, was the third son of Richard Wingfield of Wantisden, Suffolk, by his wife Mary, younger sister of Bess of Hardwick; Anthony Wingfield was his grandfather, and John Wingfield his brother. He matriculated as a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1569, entered as a
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Viscount of Irvine


the Viscountcy, though the elder died in childhood. Lord Ingram's second son, the 3rd Viscount, was Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Yorkshire and served as Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire. He married Isabella, daughter of John Machell (MP for Horsham). Five of their sons, the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Viscounts, all succeeded in the titles. The 5th Viscount was also Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The 6th and 7th Viscounts were both Members of
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James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley


James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley (17 February 1716/17 – 23 April 1752) of Baron Hill, Anglesey, was a Welsh landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1739 to 1752. Bulkeley was the second son of Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, and his wife Bridget Bertie, daughter of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon. He was educated at Westminster School in 1725 and matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 30 April 1735. He succeeded to the Irish peerage as Viscount Bulkeley on his
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Richard Wingfield-Baker


in 1827, William Wingfield inherited the John Baker title. Upon the death of Richard Baker's widow in 1849, the remainder of the estate, including the Orsett title, also passed to William Wingfield who, in the same year, legally changed his surname to Wingfield-Baker by Royal licensure. Upon the death of William Wingfield on 21 March 1858, his son, Richard Baker Wingfield, inherited the estate and assumed the additional surname of Baker. Wingfield-Baker of Orsett Hall had a second residence at 2 Lowndes Square
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Robert Wingfield (diplomat)


Sir Robert Wingfield (c.1464 – 18 March 1539) was an English diplomat. Born about 1464, he was the seventh son of Sir John Wingfield (1428–1481) of Letheringham, Suffolk, a member of the Privy Council of Edward IV, and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Elizabeth Fitzlewis (d.1500), daughter of Sir John Fitzlewis of West Horndon, Essex, by Anne Montacute. Humphrey Wingfield and Richard Wingfield were his brothers. He was brought up by Anne, Lady Scrope, his stepmother. He first rose
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Charles John Wingfield


licensure after his inheritance of Orsett Hall in Essex. Several of William's children changed their surname as well. From William's first marriage to Lady Charlotte-Maria (died 1807), eldest daughter of Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby, Wingfield had several older half siblings including: George-Digby, John-Digby, Mary, Caroline, Frances-Eliza, and Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker, a member of parliament for South Essex. By his father's marriage to Wingfield's mother, Elizabeth Mills, Wingfield had
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)


The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) is a Trotskyist political party in Australia. The SEP was established in 2010 as the successor party to the Socialist Labour League, which was founded in 1972 as the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). According to its 2019 election statement, the party opposes identity politics and the Me Too movement. The party also criticises contemporary trade unions, having adopted the position that "They are no longer workers’ organisations." Inspired by the British Socialist Labour League
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John Wingfield


Sir John Wingfield (before 1582–1596) was an English soldier. He was the third son of Richard Wingfield of Wantisden in Suffolk, and Mary, daughter and coheiress of John Hardwick of Derby, and the sister of Bess of Hardwick. His brother Anthony Wingfield was reader in Greek to Elizabeth I of England. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Lichfield in 1593. A volunteer against the Spanish in Holland, he was appointed captain of foot in the expedition there of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in
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Richard Wingfield-Baker


), eldest daughter of Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby. Wingfield-Baker's siblings were: George-Digby (who succeeded to the estates of the Earl Digby), John-Digby, Mary, Caroline (who married Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham), and Frances-Eliza. After his father's second marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of William Mills of Bisterne, Hampshire, Wingfield-Baker there were several half-siblings including:Charles John Wingfield Member of Parliament for Gravesend, William-Wriothesley-
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Philip Wenman, 6th Viscount Wenman


Philip Wenman, 6th Viscount Wenman (23 November 1719 – 16 August 1760), was a British landowner and politician. Wenman was the elder son of Richard Wenman, 5th Viscount Wenman, by Susanna, daughter of Seymour Wroughton, of Heskett. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1729, aged eleven. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords. He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon (now Abingdon School) from 1731-1737
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Mount Stewart


' was added to the other side. The marriage also brought in much of the Vane-Tempest property, including land. Wynyard Park, County Durham was redesigned in the Neo-classical style. The couple bought Seaham Hall, also in County Durham, and then later bought Holdernesse House on London's Park Lane. This was later renamed Londonderry House. The 4th Marquess of Londonderry married the widow of Viscount Powerscourt and lived at her home, Powerscourt, near Dublin. The 5th Marquess lived at his wife's ancestral property
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Powerscourt Estate


rent of £6 Irish and a knight's fee. The reasons for the forfeiture of the McCartan estates were because of the rebellious acts of Brian O'Neill (d.1549) and Phelim McCartan himself. That the actions of O'Brien, O'Neill & McCartan Lord of Kinelarty were cited as a reason for forfeiture was bizarre given the fact that at least Phelim McCartan received a posthumous pardon for unspecified offences on 23 April 1549. Furthermore, alongside Baron Cromwell his estates were surrendered to regrant. The awarded family seat of the Viscounts Powerscourt, the
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Richard Standish


Richard Standish (21 October 1621 – March 1662) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. He was a colonel in the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil War. Standish was the son of Thomas Standish of Duxbury, the MP for Preston and his wife Anne Wingfield, daughter of Sir Richard Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk. He inherited the Manor of Duxbury and Duxbury Hall after the death of his elder brother Alexander in 1648. In 1654, he was elected Member of Parliament for
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Cobhamites


The Cobhamite faction (often known as Cobham's Cubs) were an 18th-century British political faction built around Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham and his supporters. Among its members, the group included the future Prime Ministers William Pitt and George Grenville. They had a general Whig philosophy and were at first supporters of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole but later became opponents of his administration. The group emerged during the breakdown of the two-party system in Britain when the dominant Whig party had split into several factions - many of
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Martin Wingfield


party from Tyndall's father-in-law Charles Parker by publishing a dissident paper the "Sussex Front". With Ian Anderson, he was associated with the traditionalist Flag Group wing in opposition to the Political Soldier wing and became one of the leading members of this dissident group, editing their paper "The Flag". Around this time he was criticized by leading Official National Front member Nick Griffin as being more suited to the extreme right-wing of the Conservative Party. In his role as editor of NF party organs
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Georgian Dublin


January until St. Patrick's Day (17 March) every year, many found them less appealing than in the days when they could sit in parliament for a session in College Green. Many of the leading peers, including the Duke of Leinster and Viscount Powerscourt, almost immediately sold their palatial Dublin townhouses, Powerscourt House and Leinster House. Though many still flocked to Dublin every social season, many didn't or went to London. The loss of their revenue and that of their extensive staff hurt the Dublin economy severely. While
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Cecil Wingfield


Cecil Wingfield (21 September 1893 – 28 January 1955) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 until his death. He was a member of the Country Party. Wingfield was born near Ulmarra, New South Wales. He was the son of a storekeeper and was educated to elementary level in Ulmarra. He served in the First Australian Imperial Force during World War One and later became a storekeeper in Grafton, New South Wales. Wingfield became involved with local community organizations including Rotary and
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Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor


The Right Honourable Maxwell Richard Crosbie Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor (4 May 1868 – 17 November 1950) was an Irish peer and politician. Ward was born to Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor and his first wife, scientific illustrator Mary Ward, who died in the world's first motoring accident. He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Ward was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 23 July 1887, and promoted to lieutenant on 23 July 1890. He was promoted to captain
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Viscount Bulkeley


Viscount Bulkeley, of Cashel in the County of Tipperary, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 19 January 1644 for Thomas Bulkeley, the son of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris and a supporter of King Charles I of England. The title descended from father to son until the death of his great-great-grandson, the 5th Viscount, in 1738. The late Viscount was childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the 6th Viscount. The latter was succeeded by his son, the
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Gus Wingfield


, and ended up winning what was a surprisingly competitive and close statewide race against Randy Bynum. Wingfield took only 57% of the vote in that election, which turned out to be his smallest margin in the three statewide elections he has run, and in his entire political career. Wingfield is considered a part of the conservative wing of the U.S. Democratic Party. Wingfield has said he has no intentions of running for further public office, and that he would like to enjoy retirement before he dies. He told Arkansas News Bureau
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House of Stratford


The House of Stratford () is a British aristocratic family, originating in Stratford-on-Avon between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The family has produced multiple titles, including Earl of Aldborough, Viscount Amiens, Baron Baltinglass, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe and the Dugdale Baronets. The Viscount Powerscourt and Baron Wrottesley both claim descent from this House. Historic seats have included Farmcote Manor and Stratford Park in Gloucester, Merevale Hall in Warwickshire, Baltinglass Castle, Belan and Aldborough House in Ireland, and Stratford House in London, amongst
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Charles Monck, 1st Viscount Monck


of Ireland. His country seat was "Charleville House" which overlooks a water meadow for the River Dargle, enjoying frontage onto the Killough River. The estate is located 3 km from the village of Enniskerry and 4 km from Powerscourt Waterfall. The Monck family became owners of the estate in 1705. That was the year Charles Monck (the grandfather of the 1st Viscount) married Angela Hitchcock, an heiress. A fire in 1792 destroyed the original building. The Viscount commissioned the present structure and had it designed by Whitmore Davis
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Viscount Saye and Sele


Viscount Saye and Sele was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 7 July 1624 for William Fiennes, 8th Baron Saye and Sele and became extinct on the death of Richard Fiennes 6th Viscount on 29 July 1781. Under James I of England, William Fiennes, the eighth Baron Saye and Sele, was created Viscount Saye and Sele in the Peerage of England, in 1624. On the death of his son, the second Viscount, the two titles separated. The barony fell into abeyance between the second
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