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  • Also on Park Lane was Londonderry House, the residence of the Marquesses of Londonderry (pronounced “Lundundry”), the Anglo-Irish family of which Robert, Viscount Castlereagh, is the most well-known.

    Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • After the family moved back to England, I was invited to visit them at Burghley House, family seat of Miranda's relatives, the Marquesses of Exeter, in the Lincolnshire countryside.

    Life at Burghley David Netto 2011

  • Andrew Woolley, a musicologist, stumbled upon the find of his career when he saw a reference to an unspecified Vivaldi score among papers belonging to the Marquesses of Lothian in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh.

    Vivaldi flute concerto discovered Severin Carrell 2010

  • Jennifer Hewitson In another keen for the fragility of Ireland's finer architecture, Mr. Tillinghast describes the grounds of Mount Stewart, former seat of the Marquesses of Londonderry.

    Behind the Green Veil 2009

  • The same Kaukabah particularly distinguished one of the Marquesses of Waterford.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Marquesses of Saluzzo, the very greatest and worthiest man of them al, was a young Noble Lord, named Gualtiero, who having neyther wife nor childe, spent his time in nothing else but hawking and hunting: nor had he any minde of marriage, or to enjoy the benefit of children, wherein many did repute him the wiser.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The Lords and Comons sit together; As soon as we heard the names call'd over, We observ'd Dukes, Marquesses, and Earles sat on the Uppermost seats on the right hand, Viscounts and

    The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson

  • The Marquesses of Seafort and Tullibardine came and joined us next day, and in the evening held a council of war to resolve what was to be done.

    The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson

  • Marquesses, in their robes of estate, their coronets in their hands.

    Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip

  • Barons on the uppermost Seats of the left, The Knights of the Shires under the Dukes, Marquesses, and Earles, and the Burgesses and Commoners under the Viscounts and Barons.

    The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson

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