Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 4 días · Thereafter the manor passed with the viscountcy and from 1789 with the marquessate of Bath to Thomas Thynne, marquess of Bath, who sold it c. 1920 to Frederick Herrington. In 1922 Herrington sold Fifield farm, 922 a., (fn. 64) to C. E. Best (d. 1945), who was succeeded by his son John (d. 1984).
Hace 3 días · The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725. Recipients of the Order are usually senior military officers or senior civil servants, and the monarch awards it on the advice of His Majesty's Government.
Hace 5 días · An early Titian masterpiece — once looted by Napoleon’s troops and a part of royal collections for centuries — caused a stir when it was stolen from the home of a British marquess in 1995.
Hace 5 días · In 1995, it was stolen from England’s Longleat, the home of the descendants of John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, who had acquired the work from the London dealer Colnaghi. The gallery for its part, had bought it in a Christie’s sale in 1878 for 350 guineas (around $46,700 today)—the most of any of the 11 works by Titian in the sale.
Hace 5 días · In 1611 he sold Warminster to Sir Thomas Thynne, and the manor has since descended in that family, created Viscounts Weymouth in 1682, and Marquesses of Bath in 1789. Most of the property in the town was sold in lots in 1919, but several farms west of the town still belong to the Longleat estate in 1962.
Hace 5 días · A twice-stolen painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, which was once found in a plastic bag at a bus stop in London, sold for $22.3 million at auction on Tuesday.
29 de jun. de 2024 · Sir Thomas Thynne, later Viscount Weymouth, died without sons in 1714, and while the title descended to his great-nephew Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (d. 1751), he is said to have left Thame rectory to John Carteret, the husband of his granddaughter Frances Worsley.
