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Frances Gibson Shepheard Ingram

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Frances collected works of art, including Italian classical landscapes. She was painted as a shepherdess by Benjamin Wilson, reflecting her interest in pastoral landscape. She was also painted by Joshua Reynolds in a pensive mood, leaning on a book, a copy of which is at Temple Newsam.
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who began buying up burgages; but Frances used her local knowledge and her tenacity to triumph over the Duke in a House of Commons hearing that ruled in her favour over the election of 1790. In 1796, she remodelled the south wing at Temple Newsam; and in 1806 the
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redesign the parkland. Frances was an active gardener, supervising the planting in the grounds. For instance, surviving correspondence shows she helped her husband mark out where shrubs were to be planted along her gravel walk.
19: 172: 46:; her mother was called Gibson. Samuel left Frances £40,000 in his will stating that she must not marry a peer, an Irishman or a Scotsman. She married 47: 71: 23:
The portrait of Frances Gibson Shepheard Ingram (1734-1807), the wife of Charles Ingram, the 9th Viscount of Irvine (1727-1778)
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in 1758 after several years of legal dispute. At Charles's seat in Yorkshire, Temple Newsam, Frances insisted that
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Sacred to Female Patriotism: Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian Britain
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When Charles died in 1778, he left the Temple Newsam estate as well as eighty
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visited her there giving her some Chinese wallpaper.
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Temple Newsam
Leeds
Tory
Samuel Shepheard
Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount Irwin
Capability Brown
burgages
Horsham
11th Duke of Norfolk
Prince of Wales








"Extract from the Registry..."
"Frances Shepheard"
"Frances, Viscountess Irwin (1734–1807), née Frances Gibson Shepheard"



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1734 births
1807 deaths

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