A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress (1880)
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893, Fawcett, Benjamin, Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis) · London, Edinburgh, Dublin, William Mackenzie · leaf 145
bein, and others of no less celebrity. The family of Percy, Earls of Beverley and Dukes of Northumberland, of theformer of which is the present owner of Guys Cliffe, descends from Sir HughSmithson, who married Lady Elizabeth Seymour, the heiress of the Percies, andwas created Duke of Northumberland… … KNOWSLEY HALL, NEAR PRESCOT, LANCASHIRE.—EARL OF DERBY. The family of the Stanleys, Earls of Derby, is second, says Sir Bernard Burke, tonone in the Peerage of England; and I may add that the pages of history well attestthe truth of the remark, on which the last words of Marmion have further set…
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