Sir George Reresby Sitwell, 4th Baronet (27 January 1860 – 9 July 1943) was a British antiquarian writer and Conservative politician who sat in the House...
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Literature. Edith Louisa Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of...
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Sitwell produced some 50 volumes of poetry and some 50 works on art, music, architecture, and travel. Sitwell was the youngest child of Sir George Sitwell...
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Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet CH CBE (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother...
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Sacheverell Sitwell The Sitwell Baronets, holders of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British Crown Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet Sir George Sitwell, 2nd...
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William Ronald Sacheverell Sitwell DL (born 2 October 1969) is a member of the British Sitwell family. He is an editor, writer and broadcaster, restaurant...
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Sir George Reresby Sacheverell Sitwell, 8th Baronet (born 22 April 1967) is a British businessman. Sitwell was born in 1967, the elder son of Francis Trajan...
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The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell), from Scarborough, North Yorkshire and the family seat of Renishaw Hall, were three siblings...
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Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton CBE DL (10 May 1859 – 17 January 1937) was a long-serving Scottish politician and officer of arms. Swinton was...
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Gentleman (section George Sitwell)
Stubbs (Const. Hist., ed. 1878, iii. 544, 548) takes the same view. Sir George Sitwell, however, has suggested that this opinion is based on a wrong conception...
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Reresby, whose heiress married George Sitwell's grandson. George Sitwell's great-great-grandson Francis Hurt Sitwell (1728–1793), father of the first...
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Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet (September 1769 – 14 July 1811) was a British politician and landowner. Sitwell was the son of Francis Hurt (1728–1793)...
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George Sitwell (c. 1601–1667), the eldest son of George Sitwell (1569–1607) and Mary Walker, was a 17th-century landowner and ironmaster who was born...
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Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 7th Baronet (15 April 1927 – 31 March 2009) was the head of the Sitwell family, and owner of Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire...
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Renishaw Hall (category Sitwell family)
Sir George Sitwell succeeded in his infancy) and 1965, when Sir Osbert Sitwell (brother of Edith) gave the house to his nephew, Sir Reresby Sitwell, 7th...
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Weston Hall, Northamptonshire (category Sitwell family)
through the female line until Sacheverell's father, the eccentric Sir George Sitwell, took a lease on the house from an aunt. The library still contained...
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St Peter and St Paul date to 1100. George Sitwell, son of George and Mary was baptised in 1601 in Eckington. George's father died whilst he was a child...
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Left Hand, Right Hand! (category Works by Osbert Sitwell)
relation to his ancestors, his immediate family, especially his father Sir George Sitwell, and the fashionable and artistic world of his time. The five volumes...
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'Belisarius Chamber' at Raynham Hall, Norfolk. Bought in 1904 by Sir George Sitwell of Renishaw Hall, where it now hangs. Belasarius: a play by Jakob Bidermann...
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throughout history of eccentrics living on monotrophic diets. For example, George Sitwell ate only roasted chicken. Howard Hughes would sometimes spend weeks...
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Stead, Isabella Glyn, F. Digby Hardy, Kitty Byron, Lady Ida Sitwell, wife of Sir George Sitwell, and Kate Meyrick the 'Night Club Queen'. Robber Zoe Progl...
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daughter. Swinton's second marriage was to Georgina Caroline Sitwell, daughter of Sir George Sitwell of Renishaw, Bt., from 1856. The couple had one daughter...
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Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland (redirect from Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland)
1882 – 8 February 1963), married Mary Swinton, daughter of Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton. Lord James Percy (6 January 1885 – 20 May 1903), died...
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country house belonging to the Sitwell family, who were owners of the local iron foundry before it was nationalised. The Sitwell estate was occupied in part...
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Honorary titles Preceded by Sir Roger Gresley, Bt High Sheriff of Derbyshire 1827 Succeeded by Sir George Sitwell, Bt...
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George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey DL, FSA, FRHistS, FRSL (8 October 1922 – 13 July 2013), styled Earl of Uxbridge until 1947...
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divided his time between Paris and Rome. In 1921, he was commissioned by George Sitwell to paint murals for Montefugoni castle, which the latter had bought...
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county boundary and also the boundary of the ancient Sherwood Forest. George Sitwell, ironmaster, mined iron locally and at Pleasley built a furnace, a forge...
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provisions of the charter, Nathaniel Higginson, a member of the Fort St George Council, was appointed first mayor of the city. Higginson resigned after...
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ever seen them ... By 1880 Florence had been exposed as a fraud by Sir George Sitwell." Amy Lehman. (2009). Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance: Mediums...
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