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  Philm Freax: Viscount Weymouth / Marquess of Bath Part 1 The Intro
Philm Freax: Viscount Weymouth / Marquess of Bath Part 1 The Intro
We took a trip to the ancestral home of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, to meet the then Viscount Weymouth, Alexander Thynn.
Since the death of Alexander's father in 1992 his son, Ceawlin Thynn, has become Viscount Weymouth while Alexander is now the Marquess of Bath."
www.ibiblio.org /mal/MO/philm/wey   (96 words)

  
  GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: index page
I was originally going to supply the information as a pure text file, however in this form it was very hard to read and so my daughter Anne and I have "htmlised" it - this detracts nothing from the original text which is still word for word as per the original (errors notwithstanding).
The Viscount files are approximately 41KBytes each, and the Barons 30Kilobytes each.
Please note that what you see is what there is, I do not have any more information, however if you should need a date or word checking then I will willingly do this.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/History/Barons   (0 words)

  
  thePeerage.com - nil and others
     Ceawlin Henry Laszlo Thynn, Viscount Weymouth was born on 6 June 1974.
     Ceawlin Henry Laszlo Thynn, Viscount Weymouth was educated at Kingsdown Comprehensive School, Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
He was educated at Richmond University, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. He was styled as Viscount Weymouth in 1992.
www.thepeerage.com /p1903.htm   (1273 words)

  
  Thomas Thynne Bath - LoveToKnow 1911
Born on the 1 3 th of September 1734, Thomas Thynne succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Weymouth in January 1751, and was lord-lieutenant of Ireland for a short time during 1765, although he never visited that country.
In November 1775 Weymouth returned to his former office of secretary for the southern department, undertaking in addition the duties attached to the northern department for a few months in 1779, but he resigned both positions in the autumn of this year.
Weymouth was a man of considerable ability especially as a speaker, but according to more modern standards his habits were very coarse, resembling those of his friend and frequent companion, Charles James Fox.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thomas_Thynne_Bath   (524 words)

  
 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Viscounts 1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
THOMAS THYNNE, viscount Weymouth, baron Thynne of Warminster, and a baronet; knight of the garter, one of his majesty's most honourable privy council; groom of the stole to his majesty, high steward of Tamworth in the county of Stafford, one of the elder brethren of the Trinity House, and a governor of the Charter House.
and viscount Weymouth of Weymouth in the county of Dorset 11 December 1682.
This nobleman was born 6 March 1761, and elected 1780 to represent the borough of Cricklade in the county of Wilts.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons/viscounts1.html   (5845 words)

  
 Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath at AllExperts
Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, 3rd Viscount Weymouth (1734-1796), English politician, was the elder son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (1710â€"1751), and the great-grandnephew of Thomas Thynne (c.
Born on 13 September 1734 Thomas Thynne succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Weymouth in January 1751 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a short time during 1765, although he never visited that country.
In November Weymouth returned to his former office of secretary for the southern department, undertaking in addition the duties attached to the northern department for a few months in 1770, but he resigned both positions in the autumn of that year.
en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/thomas_thynne,_1st_marquess_of_bath.htm   (527 words)

  
 Carrickmacross.ie - Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Tourism, Business and local information
Earl Ferrers, the grandson of Lady Dorothy inherited her share, and Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth succeeded to the inheritance of Lady Frances Devereux, the Earl's elder daughter, later Marchioness of Hertford and Duchess of Somerset.
This division was uneven, and in Lord Weymouth's favour.
The lst Viscount Weymouth died in 1714, without surviving male issue, and bequeathed his estates to Thomas, 2nd Viscount, and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bath.
www.carrickmacross.ie /html/About_Carrick/shirley.asp   (1604 words)

  
 Viscount hurt as bomb kills girlfriend and partner
VISCOUNT Weymouth, heir to the Marquess of Bath, was injured by a bomb in a New Delhi hostel which killed his girlfriend and his business partner.
Scarlet Kirby, 21, a public relations consultant for a London cosmetics company, and Crinan Wilde, the viscount's 21-year-old business partner, died as the building collapsed from the force of the explosion.
The viscount, who was living in the guesthouse while he and Mr Wilde tried to set up a £6 million skiing resort in the lower Himalayas, was taken to Delhi's East-West medical centre with head injuries.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/04/22/nvisc22.html   (577 words)

  
 News | Telegraph
VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH, heir to the Marquess of Bath, was cleared yesterday of a drink-driving charge after police witnesses failed to attend court to give evidence.
Lord Weymouth had been stopped by police on the Bayswater Road on July 13.
He was taken to a nearby police station for a breath test and the reading showed that there was 52mg of alcohol in his breath.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/09/nbath09.xml   (291 words)

  
 Guardian | The young elite 11-20
Although the Viscount kept his seat in the House of Lords it will go in the next round so Astor junior can now only look to the Commons if he wants to maintain the family tradition in politics.
Fergus Mackay, as he is more commonly known, is descended from a family of colonial merchants who made a vast fortune in India and Hong Kong at the end of the last century, and helped finance the building of the Suez Canal.
Mackay's grandfather was a significant landowner in Scotland, but the wealth is now in a family trust and the family live on their small estate in Wiltshire.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3973140-103644,00.html   (1178 words)

  
 I On Myself Can Live: Chapter Four, Page Two
Although there is "seldom anything worth informing" Weymouth about, he writes to tell him how he and Ann strongly desire to see the Thynnes, and how they are both suffering from "ill health" (McGovern 72-5).
Weymouth's response, as we have seen, was to bring Heneage medals from London that winter.
In Ann's poem to Weymouth's daughter, she is careful to keep the father at the center of the piece.
mason.gmu.edu /~emoody/emion4-2.htm   (2391 words)

  
 Lord Bath's son wanted by court
LONDON magistrates on Wednesday, August 8, issued a warrant for the arrest of Viscount Weymouth, son and heir to Lord Bath of Longleat.
Lord Weymouth, 27, who stands to inherit the 10,000 acre Longleat estate and the famous safari park in Wiltshire run by his father, had been excused from an earlier hearing last month because he was away on business.
The viscount, who works in the property field, was arrested after a roadside breathalyser test.
archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk /2001/8/10/211804.html   (239 words)

  
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The Weymouth pine has been extensively planted in Germany, there being, for example, 3,000,000 trees in the state forests of Bavaria.
In central Europe, it is remarkably hardy, as it is not injured by the severe winter climate, never suffers from spring or autumn frosts, and is not easily broken by heavy snow.
In Belgium the finest specimens of the Weymouth pine are a group of seven trees standing close together in good soil beside a pond on the farm of St. Michel, in the western Ardennes, not far from St. Hubert.
fax.libs.uga.edu /text/5tgbitxt.txt   (11779 words)

  
 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: index page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I was originally going to supply the information as a pure text file, however in this form it was very hard to read and so my daughter Anne and I have "htmlised" it - this detracts nothing from the original text which is still word for word as per the original (errors notwithstanding).
The Viscount files are approximately 41KBytes each, and the Barons 30Kilobytes each.
Please note that what you see is what there is, I do not have any more information, however if you should need a date or word checking then I will willingly do this.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons   (252 words)

  
 Declaration of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, December 11, 1688
And if there be anything more to be performed by us for promoting His Highness's generous intentions for the public good, we shall be ready to do it, as occasion shall require.
Cant.; Thomas Ebor.; Pembroke; Dorset; Mulgrave; Thanet; Carlisle; Craven; Aylesbury; Burlington; Sussex; Berkely: Rochester; Newport; Weymouth; P. Winchester; W. Asaph; F. Ely; Thomas Roffen; Thomas Petriburg.; P. Wharton; North and Grey; Chandois; Mountague; T. Jermin; Vaughan Cherbury; Culpepper; Crew; Ossulstone.
This page is maintained by Noel S. McFerran (noel.mcferran@rogers.com) and was last updated October 26, 2003.
www.jacobite.ca /documents/16881211a.htm   (252 words)

  
 About Us - Our Aims
These two periods were of necessity separated by a two year spell of National Military Service being commissioned to the Life Guards as a Subaltern.
Art was a major influence on the young Alexander Thynn (Viscount Weymouth 1946) having studied under Wilfred Blunt, Oliver Thomas and Gerald Leet at Eton he later went on to Paris and the art scene of the ‘Left Bank’.
During many years living and working at Longleat the then Viscount Weymouth was able to develop his art and also took up writing, his first published novel being ‘The Carry-Cot’ (published by W.H. Allen.)
www.twasi.com /html/about_us.html   (1153 words)

  
 Woodlands114   (Site not responding. Last check: )
 was built in 1712, at the instigation of Thomas first Viscount Weymouth.
  The stipend was later augmented by funds bequeathed by Lord Weymouth in his will.
The church does not, because of his activities, possess the historical and architectural interest on might expect, but it is well cared for and it has the added attraction of a singularly beautiful setting.
www.hockton-news.demon.co.uk /Woodlands114.htm   (219 words)

  
 MSS - Catalogue of papers of 3rd Duke of Portland, University of Nottingham
Has heard the Duke and Duchess of Grafton are reconciled; asks who married Julia Mollyneux; asks if R[udolph] Bentinck's father is dead; would like Rudolph to send her some of the Dutch pickled herring and dried salmon.
2 ff Pw F 8732 1.7.1770 Letter from [E.C. Thynne], Viscountess Weymouth [later Marchioness of Bath] to [W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck], 3rd Duke of Portland; 1 July 1770 Thanks him for informing her of the increase in his family; enquires after the duchess and Lord Titchfield; sends family greetings.
2 ff Pw F 8743 17.8.1776 Letter from [E.C. Thynne], Viscountess Weymouth [later Marchioness of Bath], Longleat [Wiltshire], to [W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck], 3rd Duke of Portland; 17 Aug. 1776 Thanks him for his letter; is pleased he has carried his cause [v Sir James Lowther?]; comments on the weather; sends greetings from Lord Weymouth.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /is/services/mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/cats/port_3rdduke17cat.html   (2271 words)

  
 "Phantom of the Opera" Offers Phantastic Legacy to Masses
It’s 1917, and through the gritty lens of fl and white film, we watch as an elegant older woman nods to an elderly viscount in a wheelchair.
The two have come to the Paris Opera House to bid on the historic contents of the building, which has fallen into disrepair.
The opera’s new patron, wealthy Viscount Raoul de Chagny (Patrick Wilson), is also enthralled.
www.crosswalk.com /1305775   (621 words)

  
 Shirley Estate's lasting legacy
In 1677 Sir Robert entered the House of Lords, as Baron Ferrers of Chartley and was later promoted to Earl Ferrers and Viscount Tamworth in 1711.
Earl Ferrers, the grandson of Lady Dorothy inherited her share and Thomas Thynne, first Viscount Weymouth inherited the share of Lady Frances.
The division was uneven and favoured Weymouth but he behaved generously in order to rectify the injustice to Ferrers.
hoganstand.com /general/identity/stories/shirley.htm   (1240 words)

  
 Christie's Presents Longleat
They reflect the tastes and activities of the Thynne family from the mid-16th century to the present day, a long succession of baronets, viscounts and marquesses, but also of in-laws and friends.
Identifiable books from his collection and medieval English manuscripts from that of his son, Francis Thynne, probably came to Longleat after the latter's death in 1611.
The most important subsequent contributors to the libraries at Longleat were the first Viscount Weymouth (d.
www.christies.com /special_sites/longleat/article.asp?sale=1&article=4   (522 words)

  
 James Pratt's Family Tree - pafg03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She was buried on 5 Jan 1737 in Longbridge, Deverill, Wiltshire, England.
She married Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth on 3 Jul 1733.
She married George Byng 3rd Viscount Torrington on 21 Aug 1736 in, Beds., England.
home.btconnect.com /JBP/pafg03.htm   (1417 words)

  
 BabelStone : Manuscripts : Court Baron of Ross Foreign No.7   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The manors of Eardisland and Ross in Herefordshire were part of the inheritance of Lady Frances Devereux (d.1674), the elder daughter of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, that Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, succeeded to in 1692 through his marriage to Lady Frances' granddaughter, Lady Frances Finch (1650-1712).
Thomas Thynne – Thomas Thynne (1734-1796), fourth Baron Thynne of Warminster, third Lord Viscount Weymouth, and first Marquis of Bath.
Little leason – "leason" is apparently a transcription error for "leadon" ("s" and "d" being very similar in written form), presumably referring to a tributary of the River Leadon.
www.babelstone.co.uk /Manuscripts/Ross1789.html   (313 words)

  
 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
He was the first to be advanced to the dignity of a Viscount in England.
402 (inv 1606) Thomas, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon.
868 (app 30.4.1925) Edmund Bernard (Fitzalan-Howard), Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent.
www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterlist.htm   (13923 words)

  
 Land, Agriculture-Mitchell
He devised the district in North Carolina to George William, earl of Coventry, and to Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth, later the marquis of Bath, with a life interest in the proprietary to Henry Frederick Thynne, a son of Lord Weymouth, who later took the name Henry Frederick Carteret.
Josiah Martin was aware of the change of ownership of the Granville District, and on September 19, 1776, he wrote Thynne that the records of the proprietorship had been taken over by a mob leader when an effort was made to remove them to a place of safety.
On November 8, 1780, George William, earl of Coventry, Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth, and Henry Frederick Carteret confirmed Martin’s instructions of 1774 and 1775 and his appointment as agent and attorney.
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/mitchell.htm   (10475 words)

  
 James Pratt's Family Tree - pafg13 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She married Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth on 6 Dec 1726.
She was buried on 28 Jun 1729 in Longbridge, Deverill, Wiltshire, England.
She married Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth about 6 Dec 1726 in Whitehall, London, Middlesex, England.
home.btconnect.com /JBP/pafg13.htm   (921 words)

  
 British ministries, political parties, etc.
1927) 1905 - 1916 Sir Edward Grey (from 27 Jul 1916, Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon) (b.
1969) Masters-General of the Ordnance 1693 - 1702 Henry Sydney, Viscount Sydney (from 1694, Henry Sydney, Earl of Romney) (b.
1720) 1702 - 1707 Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth (b.
members.fortunecity.com /ar1932/ukgovt.html   (14659 words)

  
 Tate | Tate Report 2002-2004 | Aquisition Highlights | Wiscount Weymouth's Hunt
Wiscount Weymouth's Hunt: Thomas, 2nd Viscount Weymouth, with a fl Page and other Huntsmen at the Kill
This is one of seven paintings by Wootton commissioned in the 1730s for Longleat by Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth.
They form a narrative decorative scheme reflecting Weymouth's passion for hunting and horse racing.
www.tate.org.uk /about/tatereport/2004/collection/highlights/highlight_1_3.htm   (144 words)

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