Cowdray House consists of the ruins of one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of the great palaces and country houses...
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Sussex, in the South Downs National Park. The estate belongs to Viscount Cowdray, whose family have owned it since 1909. It has a golf course, and it offers...
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Michael Orlando Weetman Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray, DL (born 17 June 1944) of Cowdray Park in West Sussex, is a landowner in West Sussex with 16,500...
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1st Viscount Cowdray, GCVO, PC (15 July 1856 – 1 May 1927), known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and...
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Cowdray may refer to: Cowdray House, the ruins of one of England's great houses, outside the West Sussex town of Midhurst Cowdray Park, Gauteng, suburb...
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River Rother, in the parish of Easebourne, is the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House. The former Parliamentary Constituency of Midhurst is now an electoral...
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politician. Cowdray was the son of Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, and his wife Annie, daughter of Sir John Cass. Cowdray was elected...
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of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Henry Wriothesley, born 6 October 1573 at Cowdray House, Sussex, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton...
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Awareness on 20 April 1992, in a charity concert with Roger Taylor at Cowdray House in Midhurst on 18 September 1993, and at the opening of the Bejart Ballet...
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Anthony Browne (died 1548) (section Cowdray engravings)
Sir Anthony Browne, KG (c. 1500 – 6 May 1548) of Battle Abbey and Cowdray Park, both in Sussex, England, was a Member of Parliament and a courtier who...
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Having no legitimate issue, his peerage became extinct. Upon his death, Cowdray House, originally purchased by FitzWilliam from Sir Henry Owen in 1529, was...
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The Cowdray engravings comprise five 18th-century engravings of 16th-century wall-paintings, originally commissioned by Sir Anthony Browne. The original...
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at Cowdray House, although his liberty was still restricted, and on 6 October 1573 Southampton wrote elatedly to Sir William More from Cowdray House to...
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week that the unfortunate Viscount met his death, the family home of Cowdray House was destroyed by fire; a circumstance which provided the foundation...
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and can still be seen as of 2004[update]. The Spread Eagle Inn and Cowdray House are real places in Midhurst, West Sussex, England, as is St Ann's Hill...
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to be the bailiff for Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, owner of Cowdray House and Battle Abbey in Sussex. Henslowe married Woodward's widow, Agnes...
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Charlwood House Chithurst Abbey Coates House Cowdray House Cowdray Park Danny House Denne Park House East Lavington House Ecclesden Manor, Angmering Ewhurst...
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Hall, Worcestershire Viscount Combermere Combermere Abbey Viscount Cowdray Cowdray House Viscount Daventry Arbury Hall, Warwickshire Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst...
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was made a Viscount to correlate to the wealth of the Browne family. Cowdray House became the established seat of the Viscounts Montagu. Anthony Browne...
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Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray, GBE (née Cass; 4 June 1860 – 15 April 1932) was an English society hostess, suffragist and philanthropist. She was...
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In September, Pink Floyd performed at a celebrity charity concert at Cowdray House, in Midhurst. The album was mastered at the Mastering Lab in Los Angeles...
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shared a taxi journey with Lady Cowdray, in which time she lobbied for Cowdray to purchase the 'old Asquith house'. Lady Cowdray bought the freehold to the...
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buried in the church of the London Dominicans' priory at Blackfriars (a house that she and Edward had heavily patronised) on 19 December, along with those...
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Cowdray Park refers to Cowdray Park, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa Cowdray Park, West Sussex, a country house and polo park in England...
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hall house, especially in the east of the Sussex Weald. Some of Sussex's atmospheric stately homes include Herstmonceux Castle, Tudor Cowdray House, Elizabethan...
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Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 135. Bindoff, S.T. (1982). The House of Commons 1509-1558. Vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg. Cokayne, George...
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birth to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Browne was born at Cowdray House, Midhurst, Sussex, in 1552, the eldest son and heir of Anthony Browne...
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Webb in the early 20th-century. The house was owned by Charles Anthony Pearson, brother of the 4th Viscount Cowdray,[citation needed] although it was unoccupied...
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undertook extensive work on the house including the creation of the dining room and the kitchen beneath in 1923 for the Cowdray Family, who he had an extensive...
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Edmunds, Euston Hall, Norwich. 1591: Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire; August, Cowdray House 1592: August, Bisham; September, Sudeley Castle; October, Ryecote; Elvetham...
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