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on the south front of the house were commissioned by the 3rd
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insurance market, which dismantled it and re-installed it as the
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in recognition of the importance of Priestley's discovery.
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Charles Hope Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne
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In World War I, the 5th Marchioness set up an auxiliary
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John Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne
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131:. His grandfather Sir Orlando Bridgeman,
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812:National Heritage List for England
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990:1956 disestablishments in England
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505:Drawing Room from Lansdowne House
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222:hospital in the orangery. During
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324:Stairway on the Terrace Gardens
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273:Bowood House, the Little House
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148:the first Earl of Shelburne
63:Lancelot "Capability" Brown
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