#earl of orford

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Walpole planned to marry Hannah Norsa when his wife died, but the countess did not oblige, and he died before her, in debt. Hannah's theatrical friends gave a benefit performance for her, and she lived as a single woman, dying in 1784, leaving a considerable fortune.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[ginandoldlace]

Mannington Hall in Norfolk was built in 1464. The house is a beautiful example of mid-15th century medieval architecture, although the interior was extensively altered during the 19th century. The first house on the site was built before the Norman Conquest, in 1066, after which it was granted by William the Conqueror to William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. Mannington was recorded as 'Manctura' in the Domesday Book in 1086. In 1291, the house and estate passed to Maude Turrell, the sole heiress of Walter Turrell. Maude was Lord of the Manor in her own right. She later bequeathed Mannington to her second husband, Henry Lumner. He died shortly thereafter, leaving the house and estate to his son and heir William Lumner. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Lumner family rebuilt Mannington Hall in 1464, creating the magnificent moated house that survives today. In 1585, the Lumner family sold Mannington Hall to the Potts family who owned the estate until 1736. Mannington Hall and the nearby village of Itteringham were then sold to Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, the younger brother of The Rt Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford. Horatio had already purchased the neighbouring estate at Wolterton in 1722. Mannington Hall was used mostly as a dower house until 1858 when Horatio Walpole, 4th (8th) Earl of Orford, made it his main residence. Today, 560 years after it was built, Mannington Hall remains a private family residence. It is currently the home of the Dowager Baroness Walpole.

[my-deer-friend]

I was today years old when I learned that John Laurens and Peggy Shippen are (supposedly, distantly) related.

According to William Coxe, writing in 1800:

A collateral branch of the family of Shippen is settled in Philadelphia, one of them married [Henry] Laurens, who was president of the congress, and another, the American general [Benedict] Arnold.

Coxe, William. Memoirs of the life and administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, in three volumes. By William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton. ... Vol. 3, printed [by Luke Hansard] for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, in the strand, 1800. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CW0100268298/ECCO?sid=bookmark-ECCO&xid=ae6db23e&pg=212. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.

There's no quick way to verify this and I'm not entirely sure it's correct, given that John's mother Eleanor belonged the Delamere and Ball families – though this information was passed on from a Shippen family member directly to the author.

[oceancentury]

The Yellow Drawing Room in the East Wing at Wolterton Hall was created in 1828 by Philip Hardwick and George Stanley Repton, the son of Humphry Repton. They were commissioned by Horatio Walpole, 3rd (7th) Earl of Orford.

[mea-gloria-fides]

“The Immortal Seven”: Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford.

[alrederedmixedmedia]

Alredered Remembers Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician, on his birthday.

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

[chatsworthbyrubes]

~Paintings~

A view of Chatsworth from the east. {primary image}

Acquired in 2017, this detailed view painting is on display at Chatsworth now. This painting from the 1st Duke of Devonshire’s period is shown alongside a series of landscape paintings detailing major changes to the house and garden through more than 300 years. At the time of its creation, the Duke of Devonshire said, “I am extremely excited that this landscape has joined the Devonshire Collection. It will be of great interest to our visitors as it portrays on a grand scale a complete view of Chatsworth House, Garden and Park as built and laid out by the 1st Duke and this enables us all to know so much more about Chatsworth at the very beginning of the 18th century.”

It is known though that this large view of Chatsworth originally belonged to Admiral Edward Russell, later 1st Earl of Orford, a friend and political colleague of the 1st and 2nd dukes of Devonshire. Russell and the future 1st Duke had both been signatories to the secret document inviting Prince William of Orange to take the English throne. As Russell had no children, the painting passed on his death to his great-niece Letitia Tipping who married the 1st Lord Sandys in 1725. It remained in the Sandys family until 2017.

The painting was transformed when fully cleaned before its sale. It enabled art historians to attribute the painting to Jan Siberechts, a Flemish-born artist who specialised in painting bird’s eye views of English country houses in the late seventeenth century.

Harvard referencing:

A View of Chatsworth from the East (no date) Chatsworth House. Available at: https://www.chatsworth.org/visit-chatsworth/chatsworth-estate/art-archives/devonshire-collections/paintings/view-of-chatsworth/ (Accessed: 19 September 2023).

[aspumoni]

Genealogy

How is Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), 7th President of the United States of America, 1829-1837, related to -~-~ Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1721-1742?

                          Roger Wentworth + Margery Despenser

                             1397-1452                  1400-1478        

                                                        |                                          

Philip Wentworth                                                     Henry Wentworth

  x-1464                                                                        1426-1483

         +                                                                                  +

Mary Clifford                                                             Elizabeth Howard

 1412-1478                                                                    1421-x

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Andrew Jackson                                                        Robert Walpole

   1767-1845                                                                   1676-1745

[ryotarox]

グランド・ツアー―英国貴族の放蕩修学旅行 (中公文庫) | 本城 靖久 |本 | 通販 - Amazon.co.jp

18世紀英国では、貴族の御曹子を国際人に養成するために欧州大陸に遊学させるグランド・ツアーが流行していた。 だが、大陸で若きジェントルマンを迎えたのは、香り高い文化や伝統ばかりではなく、泥んこの悪路や宿屋の害虫だらけのベッド、そして百戦錬磨の詐欺師や娼婦も手ぐすね引いて待ち受けていた…本書では、旅立ちから帰国まで、ツアーの一行と一緒に各地を訪れ、旅の苦労と楽しみを時空を超えてともに味わう。サントリー学芸賞受賞作

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グランドツアー - Wikipedia

（英:Grand Tour、伊:Gran Turismo〈グランツーリスモ〉）とは、17世紀初頭から19世紀初頭までイギリスの裕福な貴族の子弟が、その学業の終了時に行った大��模な国外旅行[1]。

17世紀になりそれまで続いたヨーロッパの戦乱が落ち着きを見せ、宿や駅馬車、交通網など旅行に必要な環境が整ってきた。それ以前の旅行は商用など実用的な目的があるものがほとんどだったが、グランドツアーの流行は私的な旅行が始まった時期と重なっている[2]。 当時文化的な先進国であったフランスとイタリアが主な目的地で、主要都市の文化や上流社会を体験する機会となっていた[1]。修学旅行と比較されることがあるが、グランドツアーは学校主催の教育旅行ではなく個人主催であったこと、費用も賄うことができる一部の者のみが参加したこと、グランドツアーは期間が数か月から数年と長いことなど違いがある[1]。

参考文献

石ノ森章太郎 『グランドツアー 英国式大修学旅行』 原作：本城晴久、脚本：仲倉重郎、中央公論社〈中公コミック・スーリ・スペシャル〉、1997年、ISBN 412-4104677

海野弘 『酒場の文化史』講談社学術文庫、2009年。ISBN 9784062919524

岡田温司 『グランドツアー 18世紀イタリアへの旅』 岩波新書、2010年、ISBN 400-4312671

増訂版『英国流 旅の作法　グランド・ツアーから庭園文化まで』 講談社学術文庫（桑木野幸司解説）、2020年、ISBN 406-5200512

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グランドツアーと絵画、ジュエリー : PRECIOUS TIME presented by Ken

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ホレス・ウォルポール - Wikipedia

第4代オーフォード伯爵ホレス・ウォルポール（Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1717年9月24日 - 1797年3月2日）は、イギリスの政治家、貴族、小説家。ゴシック小説『オトラント城奇譚』で知られる。

イートン校とケンブリッジ大学で学び、1739年から2年間、詩人トマス・グレイとともにフランス、イタリア遊学（グランドツアー）を行っている[2]。

トマス・グレイ - Wikipedia

（Thomas Gray, 1716年12月26日 - 1771年7月30日）は、イングランドの詩人、古典学者、ケンブリッジ大学教授。

1738年、旧友のウォルポールと一緒にグランドツアーに参加したが、おそらく費用はウォルポールが持った���のと思われる。しかし、トスカーナで、ウォルポールは社交界のパーティに出たいと言い、グレイは古代遺物を回りたいと言い、喧嘩別れとなる。ただし、数年後に和解した

グランドツアー ／ トマス・グレイ ／ ウォルポール ／ ゴシック ／ オトラント城

[thelreads]

You know the best part about hin referencing Prince in universe is that I'm not certain how many people actually get the reference. The guy was from, like, a couple centuries ago AND he's foreign. So there is a very good chance that almost nobody in universe gets what he's referencing. It's like if I tried to be a superhero based on Lord Whapole of England. Very famous and influential in his tome, but a couple of centuries later?

Whaaaa- How come? Eeeeeverybody here gets the references about my boy Bob Pole, the good ol' Earl of Orford. I mean, Who Killed Cock Robin is an absolute banger, it's on loop on my spotify and will probably show up on my stats as the most played song this year

[lailoken]

���Maids of the Meres’

“The name Mermaid derives from Old English mere, a pool or lake, and it formed the first part of mere-wif, 'mere-wife', the term still preserved in the East Anglian dialect. This is the term applied to Grendel’s Dam, or mother, a cannibalistic ogress who lived beneath a lake, described in the Anglo-Saxon classic Beowulf, which many scholars now think was originally written in East Anglia. Like the ogress, the merewives haunted the inland pools, pits and rivers of the inland areas, rather than the seashores, and were thought to pull in anyone who was foolish enough to lean too far over the water. The River Gipping in Suffolk was notorious for containing them, and James Bird (a local man born in Earl Stonham in 1788), wrote in a poem from 1837 about his boyhood in the area and his mother calling out to him;

‘Make haste and do your errand. Go not nigh

The River's brink, for there the mermaids lie.

Be home at five!’

The merewives however, mainly lived in pools and pits which, like the lake in Beowulf, were described as bottomless. There were the Meremaid Pits in Fornham All Saints and the well in the village of Rendlesham in the same county, and those in the surrounding districts, which were all reputed to contain meremaids. A correspondent to Robert Chambers Book of Days' (1863- 4), writing from Suffolk, informed him that meremaids abounded in the ponds and ditches of his locality; ‘I once asked a child what mermaids were, and he was ready with his answer at once, “Them nasty things what crome (hook) you into the water!”’

It is an old belief that marshland and fenland children were often born with webbed or partially webbed feet (and this is not uncommon in East Anglia in general, even today). Such children, and they were usually girls — so the old belief went – were usually beautiful and were said to be half meremaid and half ferisher; unless their bare feet were seen, they were impossible to tell from normal mortals. They loved to play near meres and dykes, but had a strong homicidal tendency and often tried to push their more normal companions into the pools and drown them. The Cambridgeshire poet J. R. Withers describes much local lore in his verses concerning the countryside around the village of Fordham; in his 1864 poem ‘The Pond in the Meadow', he writes;

‘And strange were the tales of the pond in the meadow,

And eager we listened with eyes opened wide,

To those tales often told by poor Mary the widow,

Who lived in a cottage the meadow beside.

Play not, my dear boys, near the pond in the meadow,

The mermaid is waiting to pull you beneath;

Climb not for a bird's nest, the bough it may sliver,

And the mermaid will drag you to darkness and death.’

Although sharing their name with the mermaid of classical and heraldic traditions, the merewife is a product of genuine, native tradition, rather than of learned lore. The bugbear that these creatures have become belies the traditional worth and use to which they were put by magical practitioners. As in many cases of native lore, they have been 'demonised' to hide their true value and worth, actually probably by the practitioners themselves, rather than the Church or Authorities. East Anglian magical lore asserts that, like many other openings into the earth, be they on solid ground or not, manmade or natural, they are entrances to the chthonic Other realms and may be entered and journeyed within by those of sufficient skill, knowledge and courage. Like all sorties of this kind, they are not without their dangers and the warnings given of the denizens of the deep may well reflect these actual perils, as well as to scare off dabblers and the merely curious. The merewives, being natives of this Other/ Underworld realm, were the guardians of the thresholds to these realms and the knowledge and powers that could be found and developed there. Contact with the merewives could bring about profound changes in the consciousness of the local magical practitioner, if they knew the right techniques, but could bring madness and death to those unprepared and unlearned. It was often to protect the unwary that the tales of danger were started, and to leave the land clear for the local witches to continue to develop their practices undisturbed. The merewife was emblematic of the rich depths of wisdom, magic and knowledge, stored in the Underworld and accessible to the magic-worker. They were and still are, a glyph for the information buried deep in the psyche of all individuals, which may come welling up under the right conditions.

As an adjunct to the tales of the meremaids, it is worth noting a more personal and individual tale of a water-dwelling creature, recorded by the previously mentioned Ralph of Coggeshall, around the turn of the 13th. Century. According to this chronicler, in the reign of King Henry II, some fishermen from the Suffolk coastal town of Orford were hauling in their nets one day when they found they had a most unusual catch. Described by Ralph as a hominem silvestrem ('wodewose' or wild man), the being was shaped exactly like a man and was completely nude but extremely hairy, 'in such abundance that it appeared dishevelled and shaggy; his beard particularly was thick and pine-like, and around his chest it was particularly hairy and shaggy.’ He was, however, almost completely bald. The fishermen took the man to the Castellan of Orford Castle, Bartholomew de Glanville, who took him in and fed him, initially treating him well. The wild man ate whatever food he was given, but much preferred raw meat and fish, which he would squeeze dry with his hands and consume with relish. He slept on a couch that was provided for him and was generally no trouble, except that he would not or could not speak, remaining quite dumb. The people in the castle did not know if he was human and wondered, it is if he could be an evil spirit inhabiting the body of a drowned sailor. Lacking any evidence from the wild man himself, they hung him up by his feet and tortured him to see if they could get him to speak, but this was apparently unsuccessful, so they desisted and tried another tack. They decided to take the man to mass to see if he was a Christian and whether the solemnity and dignity of the occasion would elicit any response from him. This however failed also, the creature apparently having no interest in the ceremony at all, remaining as mute as ever. The Castellan began to become bored after this, deeming there to be no fun in a 'pet' that only ate and slept. Accordingly, he ordered a portion of the river leading to the sea to be netted off and the creature to be placed therein. In this pen the wild man seemed perfectly happy and his captors began to lose their vigilance in guarding him. Eventually he broke out and swam off to sea, but remarkably, he later returned and stayed another two months, becoming very friendly with the local inhabitants. However, he finally swam away never to return, but the tale has persisted in the area ever since, leading to further stories of encounters with beings from the sea. This tale, and those before, go to show the deep importance, for East Anglians at least, of the desirable but dangerous need for contact with the beings of other realms and places; it almost seems like part of the psyche of the inhabitants of the area.”

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The Devil’s Plantation:

East Anglian Lore, Witchcraft & Folk-Magic

Chapter 1: ‘The Living Landscape’

by Nigel G. Pearson

[triviareads]

Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (10 July 1736 – 22 August 1807)

I just found out about Maria, the Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, who I found fascinating for her rise in society, which similarly parallels one of my characters, Selina Bridgerton, who is the illegitimate daughter of Anthony Bridgerton and Siena Rosso. I love history, so I was always on the lookout for historical precedent for the unique position in society Selina occupies, as well as her rise, and while I found vague parallels in other historical families, I found a pretty close match in Maria.

Maria was born as Maria Walpole, the illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Walpole and Dorothy Clement, who never married, but lived together.

Maria's grandfather was Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, who was considered to be the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Her mother Dorothy Clement was the daughter of a postmaster. Sir Edward likely never married her because of her low birth, but she lived with him, and their 4 children were all given his last name.

Maria's social standing, despite all her connections, were somewhat hindered because of her illegitimate status, but it seemed to have worked out for her, because her first husband was the Earl Waldegrave, with whom she had three children. All of them made appropriately aristocratic matches later on, one of them even being an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Maria's second husband, after the Earl died, was actually Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, a brother of King George III. She had three more children with him. They were all afforded the HH title at birth courtesy of being great-grandchildren of a George II, and the two that survived infancy were later afforded the HRH titles.

[mariacallous]

It is obvious, that the people of England are at this moment animated against each other, with a spirit of hatred and rancour. It behoves you, in the first place, to find a remedy for these distempers which at present are predominant in the civil constitution.

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, Speech in the House of Commons (10 January 1711)

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Edward Russel, Earl of Orford, 1745.

[artist-charles-turner]

Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, 1806, Charles Turner

[pciscnedhcney]

dolores j. umbridge. || intro.

----- trivia first. ----- bio second. ----- wcs third.

Basics:

Name: Dolores Jane Umbridge. Lola, if you want. Dolly, if you’re looking for violence. Meaning:      Dolores // sorrow, pain.      Jane // god is gracious.      Umbridge // pun on umbrage, offence or annoyance Birthday: 26. August Age: 28 Pronouns: she / her Sexuality: bisexual Siblings: Ernest Umbridge, squib. None. Parents: Orford Umbridge, halfblood. Ella Cracknell, muggle. deceased.  Other Family: None. Related to most pureblood families, most importantly the Selwyns. Languages: English, Latin.  Current Residence: London, UK. Hometown: Grimsby, UK

Wizard Fun:

Hogwarts House: Slytherin Occupation: Head of the Department of Magical Equipment Control Pet: Four precious cats Blood Status: halfblood pureblood Patronus: unable to cast Boggart: being ridiculed by her peers Amortentia: fresh earl grey tea, dried flowers Wand type: Birch, Dragon heartstring, 8in Affiliation: Death Eaters

Personality:

Positive Traits: poised, seemingly sweet, ambitious Negative Traits: cruel, sadistic, fake

BIO QUICKFACTS. 

Was born to a muggle woman and her blood purist father who teaches his daughter his ways from a very young age. 

Grows up to despise her muggle mother, her squib brother, and her own blood status even before she gets into Hogwarts

Is an exceptional student, but lacks the social skills to make friends with just about anyone and feels extremely slighted by being denied positions of power such as prefect or head girl.

Her mother leaves with her brother when she’s just 15. She never hears from them again.

Starts working at the ministry straight after school. Pays off her father to quit his custodian position so they wouldn’t run into each other at work. Makes very sure no one assumes they’re related. 

Climbs the career ladder fast. Is nice to people who help her get ahead and pretty awful to everyone else. Personality like poisoned honey - sickly sweet. 

Will abuse her position to confiscate pureblood wands for a powertrip. 

WANTED CONNECTIONS.

Absolutely everything. Every little plot point I’m happy with! But to give you some ideas, I naturally prepared a little list.

Victims. Dolores isn’t just a bitch, she’s a straight up bully. Her prefered victims are people she thinks she’s above. That’s anyone not pureblood, people without a lot of prestige, half breeds, squibs, you name it. This can go anywhere from being rude to your character at work, to being all out violent. 

Someone who knows about her little blood status secret. That can be someone who might even be considered a friend, who maybe feels a bit of sympathy for her, or someone who isn’t above using it for their own benefit. 

People she’s friendly with. Those could be actual friends, though most people will probably find Dolores to be somewhat unlikeable, or just some mutual agreement to be nice to each other for appearance’s sake.

Someone who has as much fun with her more violent side as she does. Inflicting grievous bodily harm can be a great hobby if shared with others.