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Maurier and the 10th Earl that the happiness and freedom experienced during these childhood visits made an impact on the future writer which she
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Sturges as his architects. John Fitzwilliam, the second Earl, succeeded in 1719 and the following year completed an extension to the stable block and continued the work his father had started on enlarging the park and altering the gardens to the south of the Hall to include the walled
118:, who also began to lay out grounds. He was succeeded in 1599 by his son, the fourth William, who continued to work on the Hall and possibly developed the landscape. Extracts from his household accounts have been published. On his death in 1618, he was succeeded by his son, later the first
241:(born 9 August 1953) succeeded his father in 1987, and his grandmother and mother to the stewardship of the FitzWilliam estates. He married, in 1980, Lady Isabella Lambton. Elizabeth-Anne's first marriage was dissolved in 1960 and she married, secondly, in 1975, Sir
233:(1883 â 1962), from whom she was divorced in 1955. Joyce Langdale by her first marriage had two daughters. The younger was Elizabeth Anne Marie Gabrielle FitzAlan-Howard (26 January 1934 â 20 March 1997) who married firstly in 1952,
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225:(28 May 1904 â 21 September 1979) married, in April 1956, Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale (1898 â June 1995), eldest daughter and heiress of Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Joseph Langdale (1863â1950), OBE, JP, DL, of
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and her husband Denis stayed overnight at Milton following an engagement in Sir
Stephen's Bedfordshire constituency. The following morning, the PM took a call to tell her that an RAF Vulcan had successfully
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Rockingham, and this became his principal seat, the family moving to Milton only in the winter for the hunting. To facilitate this, he commissioned
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was based on her recollection of the rooms and 'big house feel' of Milton in the First World War, and referred to Milton in a letter to the last Lord
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189:Harold Peto
148:John's son
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834:Stanground
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