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LANSDOWNE, WILLIAM PETTY FITZMAURICE, 1st Marquess of (1737–1805), British statesman, better known under his earlier title of earl of Shelburne, was born at Dublin on the 20th of May 1737. He was a descendant of the lords of Kerry (dating from 1181), and his grandfather Thomas Fitzmaurice, who was created earl of Kerry (1723), married the daughter of Sir W
William Petty ( 26 de mayo de 1623 - Londres, 16 de diciembre 1687) fue un filósofo, médico, economista y estadístico inglés. Petty estudió medicina y se hizo médico, en las universidades de Leiden, París y Oxford. Petty tuvo extensas propiedades en Irlanda debido a su asociación con Oliver Cromwell y la Mancomunidad (Commonwealth).
Charles Maurice Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne, LVO, DL (born 21 February 1941), styled Earl of Shelburne between 1944 and 1999, is a British peer, landowner and army officer. He was Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 2012 to 2016, having served on a rural district council in the 1960s, chaired North Wiltshire District Council in the 1970s, and served for fifteen years on ...
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 247.6 cm × 158.7 cm (97.5 in × 62.5 in) Location. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic life-size portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. It depicts the 64-year-old president of the United States during his final year in office.
John Henry Petty, Earl Wycombe, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne (6 December 1765 – 15 November 1809), was a British Whig politician who in Ireland was suspected of complicity in a republican conspiracy. In 1786, his father, the former British Prime Minister Lord Shelbourne , secured him an English seat in the House of Commons .
This portrait is one version of Gilbert Stuart's best-known full-length image of Washington. These are known as the "Lansdowne" portraits because this version was the gift of Mrs. William Bingham to William Petty, second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquis of Lansdowne, a British supporter of the American cause during the Revolutionary War.
Lansdowne, Henry William Edmund Petty FitzMaurice, 6th marquis of, 1872-1936. Publication date 1937 Topics Petty FitzMaurice family, Kerry (Ireland). -- History
