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    Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour...
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    of Rotherbridge. Petworth is the location of the 17th-century stately home Petworth House, the grounds of which (known as Petworth Park) were the work...
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    "The Proud Duke", was an English aristocrat and courtier. He rebuilt Petworth House in Sussex, the ancient Percy seat inherited from his wife, in the palatial...
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    George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (category People from Petworth)
    3rd Earl of Egremont FRS (18 December 1751 – 11 November 1837) of Petworth House in Sussex and Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, was a British peer, a major...
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    purchased by the art collector Lord Egremont for his country estate Petworth House. He received 500 guineas for the work. In order to depict Bucephalus...
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    (4 July 1644 – 31 May 1670), of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland and Petworth House, Sussex, was an English peer. Percy was the eldest son of Algernon Percy...
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    England, Northumberland also had estates in the south at Petworth House in Sussex and also at Syon House in Middlesex, acquired by his marriage to Lady Dorothy...
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    Room at Petworth House in Sussex on 24 June 1814 during the Allied sovereigns' visit to England following the victory over Napoleon. Petworth's owner Lord...
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    causing it to be termed The English Versailles (a moniker also applied to Petworth House in Sussex, amongst others). The magnificence of the collections at Boughton...
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    marriage, he rebuilt in palatial style her father's principal seat Petworth House in Sussex. The marriage is said to have been unhappy: while she brought...
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    annexed by Wessex. It has a number of stately homes including Goodwood, Petworth House and Uppark, and castles such as Arundel Castle and Bramber Castle. The...
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    Petworth is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. While largely residential, Petworth is home to a notable commercial corridor...
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    Percy family (redirect from House of percy)
    feudal barony of Topcliffe. The Percy family's most ancient English seat. Petworth, Sussex, acquired by Joscelin of Louvain (d.1180), husband of Agnes de...
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    Egremont for earlier history of the family), from whom he inherited Petworth House in Sussex, Egremont Castle and Cockermouth Castle in Cumbria and Leconfield...
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    Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge...
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    although he held several minor positions under Charles II. He died at Petworth House in October 1668. Algernon Percy was the third, but eldest surviving...
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    of Petworth, in Sussex, by his half-sister Adeliza of Louvain, the widow of King Henry I of England. His descendants were seated at Petworth House for...
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    Earl of Egremont, at Petworth House in West Sussex, and painted scenes that Egremont funded taken from the grounds of the house and of the Sussex countryside...
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    and displayed in its library, while a terrestrial globe is at Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex. Emery Molyneux is regarded as the maker of the first...
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  • Rebecca (2020 film) (category Films set in country houses)
    unlike the actual manor), Loseley Park for Manderley's staircases, Petworth House for one of the corridors full of marble statues and paintings, and lastly...
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  • locations: Stowe House, Buckinghamshire; West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; Petworth House, West Sussex; Boughton House, Northamptonshire;...
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    earldom of Egremont became extinct. The large Wyndham estates, including Petworth House in Sussex had already passed to Colonel George Wyndham. He was the natural...
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    Real Tennis Club, Newmarket, Suffolk: 1 court in use Petworth House Real Tennis Club, Petworth, Sussex: 1 court in use Prested Hall Racket Club, Feering...
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    worn by Shirley. Both of these paintings are now in the collection of Petworth House, in West Sussex. List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck Gary Schwartz...
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    Warwickshire, and at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, Suffolk, Petworth House, Sussex, Danny House, Sussex, Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, Rufford Abbey, Eglinton...
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    Starkey, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Bernard, G. W., "The Fall of the House of Percy", The Tudor Nobility, Manchester University Press, 1992 ISBN 9780719036255...
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    Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (category Leaders of the House of Lords)
    1710 – 21 August 1763), of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, Petworth House in Sussex, and of Egremont House in Mayfair, London, was a British statesman who served...
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    the 3rd Earl of Egremont to pump water from the river to Petworth and his home at Petworth House. Following the demolition of the mill, the Coultershaw...
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  • interiors and the music room scene), Petworth House (chapel), Stourhead (lake and temple), Longleat, and Wilton House (interior and exterior) in England...
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  • place). The real St James's Church is in the series. The art display at Petworth House was used for the museum scene, with Royal Artillery Barracks used as...
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