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Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath ED JP (26 January 1905 – 30 June 1992), styled Lord Henry Thynne until 1916 and Viscount Weymouth between 1916 and 1946, was a British aristocrat, landowner, and Conservative Party politician.
Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th marquess of Bath was a British nobleman who in 1949 turned Longleat House, his financially distressed family’s 16th-century home, into a tourist attraction, setting a precedent that was followed by a number of his peers. In the 1960s he introduced African wildlife in a
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Henry Frederick Thynne, landowner and safari-park pioneer, born Longleat Wiltshire 26 January 1905, styled Viscount Weymouth 1916-46, MP (Conservative) Frome 1931-35, succeeded 1946 as sixth...
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19 de may. de 2023 · Visitors have been welcomed onto the 450-year-old Wiltshire estate since 1949 when Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath had the controversial idea to open its doors to the paying public. He went on to totally redefine the world of tourism in 1966 when he launched the only drive-through safari park outside of Africa.
28 de nov. de 2020 · His own father, Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, was once dubbed one of the ‘Bright Young Things’ in 1920s high society, and was responsible for opening the house to the public and installing the safari park.
Thynn was born in London, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath and Daphne Fielding, and grew up at his family seat, Longleat, a grand Elizabethan house set in Wiltshire parkland landscaped in the 18th century by Capability Brown.
