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Background Scope and Content: The William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne papers consist of the letters and official papers of Lord Shelburne, British politician, member of parliament, secretary of state for the Southern Department, and Prime Minister from 1782-1783.
Her great grandson, the second Earl of Shelburne became first Marquis of Landsdowne in 1784. He died in 1805 and the second Marquis of Landsdowne, a century after William Petty, rediscovered the site and in 1805-09 built a Pleasure Ground with encircling walls (Walls in half-circles and serpentine walls, (O’Neill,1896 oral and www.wikipedia.com).
History of Kenmare. Sir William Petty established a settlement/plantation scheme here ("Kilmare") around 1670 comprised of English, Cornish, and Welsh protestants. It wasn't however until around 1775 when the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (William Petty-Fitzmaurice) took an interest in the settlement that the town took on its present shape.
Volumes 43 and 44 of the William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne Papers are a distinct group of papers within the much larger collection. They are papers of Peter Burrell, Sub-Governor of the South Sea Company, which held the Asiento/Assiento agreement with Spain granting Great Britain exclusive right to trade enslaved persons in the Spanish colonies between 1713 and 1750.
26 de ago. de 2015 · William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelbourne . William Petty, 2 nd Earl of Shelburne, and from 1784 1 st Marquess of Lansdowne, was born in Dublin on 2 May 1737 to a Kerry landed family, the Fitzmaurices (his father changed the family name to Petty in 1751 on inheriting estates in High Wycombe, shortly before being created Earl of Shelburne in 1753).
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1er marqués de Lansdowne, (2 de mayo de 1737, Dublín – 7 de mayo de 1805, Berkeley Square, Londres; conocido como el conde de Shelburne entre 1761 y 1784, título por el que se le conoce generalmente en la historia), fue un estadista whig británico nacido en Irlanda que fue el primer ministro del Interior en 1782 y luego primer ministro en 1782-1783 durante los ...
Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne (14 January 1872 – 5 March 1936), was cousin of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, cousin of Winston Churchill and husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt. Lady Beatrix Frances Petty-Fitzmaurice (25 March 1877 – 5 August 1953), [29] married firstly Henry Beresford ...
