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Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ty ofHuntingdon, was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Carysfort, of Carysfort,in the County of Wicklow. He was succeeded by his son, John Joshua Proby, second Baron, who was created Earl of Carysfort, in thePeerage of Ireland, and raised to the English Peerage as Baron Carysfort ofNorman Cross, in the County of Huntingdon. He died in 1828, and was followedby his son, John Proby, second Earl Carysfort, a General in the army, born in 1780, whodied unmarried in 1855, and was succeeded by his brother, Granville Leveson Proby, third Earl Carysfort, an Admiral R.N., engaged at thebattles of the Nile and Trafalgar. He was born in 1781, and died November 3rd.,1868, his eldest surviving son being Sir Granville Leveson Proby, fourth Earl of Carysfort, K.P., born September14th., 1825, some time M.P. for the County of Wicklow, a Captain in the 74th.Highlanders, Controller of the Household, married, July 19th., 1853, Lady AugustaMaria Hare, daughter of William, third Earl of Listowl. Wf i
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EASTNOR CASTLE, NEAR EASTNORj HEREFORDSHIRE. EARL SOMERS. Eastnor Castle was built by Johnj first Earl Somers, and completed in 1815. Thedesigns were given by Sir Robert Smirke^ in the style of the twelfth century. The castle stands on a rising ground, a little above the site of the old familymansion of Castledich in Eastnor, (in Domesday/^ Esnore,) a moated building ofextreme antiquity, and which was besieged on more than one occasion during thecivil wars of Charles the First. The entrance hall, sixty feet in height, is a noble apartment of Norman archi-tecture, ornamented with Italian and other marbles, and containing some remarkablesuits of armour of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The libraries contain a fine collection of books, and are adorned with a suite ofGobelin Tapestries, from the designs of Lucas Van Leyden at the Palace ofFontainbleau. Among the works of art Is a collection of interesting pictures of the early Italianmasters: Saint Catherine, by Giotto; Simono Mem

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