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2 days ago · A Frans Hals last offered for sale at Christie’s a century ago took £4.7m. The half-length portrait of a gentleman of the de Wolff family came for sale from the heirs of Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (1856-1927) who acquired it in 1919 for 25,500 guineas at Christie’s.
4 days ago · He died in 1840, leaving three daughters, by whom the property was sold to the 6th Earl of Egmont. From the 8th Earl it was bought in 1908 by Sir Weetman Pearson, created Baron Cowdray in 1910 and Viscount in 1917, and is now held by the 3rd Viscount.
5 days ago · In 1895 Sir Weetman Pearson, a wealthy oil contractor, won the parliamentary seat for the Liberals. He retained it at subsequent elections until he was raised to the peerage as Lord Cowdray in 1910; created a viscount in 1917, he was high steward of Colchester 1910-27 and a generous benefactor to the town. L. Worthington Evans won for the ...
2 days ago · The ruins were left to the ravages of time, the weather, and ivy, until the estate was bought in 1908 by Sir Weetman Pearson (later Lord Cowdray). He called in Sir William St. John Hope to advise on their preservation and to compile a history of the house.
3 days ago · The Right Honourable Samuel Lord Hood (1st Viscount Hood of Whitley) (1724-1816) had known Bligh. He had already been C.-in-C. Portsmouth and given Bligh his sailing orders in 1787. 12 December 1724: Born in Butleigh, Somerset, to Vicar Samuel Hood and his wife Mary.
5 days ago · Nova Weetman’s memoir of losing her partner to cancer during COVID lockdown blends hard-won wisdom with pure nostalgic joy. Written by Edwina Preston, PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne. It’s difficult to critique a memoir. How do you critique the work – its language, structure, craft ...
4 days ago · His first public speech as a Methodist was at the centenary of the stonelaying at Wesley's Chapel in 1877, and he later played a prominent part in the dedication of Wesley's house as a museum in 1898 and the re-opening of the renovated Chapel in 1899.
