As the invading British army neared Washington in 1814 during the war, Dolley Madison ordered the Stuart painting a copy of the Lansdowne portrait, to be removed, as the White House staff hurriedly prepared to flee:

A Quaker community and a Friends ' Meeting House are located on Lansdowne Avenue.

However, as Austen Chamberlain was still officially at least a Liberal Unionist, his candidature was opposed by many Conservatives, because they already had the Liberal Unionist Lord Lansdowne leading them in the House of Lords.

While in Rome he had met Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, through whom he met Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland and his wife Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland, their London home, Holland House was the centre of the Whig Party ( Barry remained a lifelong supporter of the Liberal party, the successor to the Whig Party ), Barry was invited to the gatherings at the house, and there met many of the prominent members of the group ; this led to many of his subsequent commissions.

At Bowood House, Wiltshire, ( 1834 – 38 ), for Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne he added the tower, made alterations to the gardens and designed the Italianate entrance lodge, also for the same client he designed the Lansdowne Monument ( 1845 ).

Lord Lansdowne succeeds Devonshire as Leader of the House of Lords, remaining also Foreign Secretary.

Balfour made the controversial decision, with Lord Lansdowne, to use the heavily Unionist House of Lords as an active check on the political program and legislation of the Liberal party in the House of Commons.

The Conservatives were led by Arthur Balfour and Lord Lansdowne, who headed the Conservatives in the House of Lords, while Law spent the time concentrating on the continuing problem of tariff reform.

On 29 February 1912 the entire Conservative parliamentary body met at Lansdowne House, with Lord Lansdowne chairing.

Law decided that the November party conference was the perfect time to announce the withdrawal of the Referendum Pledge, and that Lord Lansdowne should be the one to do it, firstly because he had been leader in the House of Lords when the pledge was made and secondly because of his relatively low profile during the original tariff reform dispute.

* Lansdowne House, in London, from the Marquess of Lansdowne.

At one of his inherited properties, Derreen House ( Lauragh, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland ), Lord Lansdowne started to create a great garden from 1870 onwards.

Lord Lansdowne entered the House of Lords as a member of the Liberal Party in 1866.

Following the Liberal victory in the January 1906 general elections, Lord Lansdowne became the leader of the opposition Unionists ( Conservative and Liberal Unionist peers ) in the House of Lords.

After the Liberals won two elections in 1910 on the pledge to reform the House of Lords and remove its veto power, and after a series of failed negotiations in which Lansdowne was of key importance, the Liberals moved forward to end the Lords veto, if necessary by recommending to the King that he created hundreds of new Liberal peers.

In 1809 he became Marquess of Lansdowne ; and in the House of Lords and in society he continued to play an active part as one of the Whig leaders.

He furnished Bowood and his London home, Lansdowne House, with superb collections of paintings and classical sculpture, and commissioned Robert Adam to decorate the grander rooms in Bowood and to add a magnificent orangery, as well as a small menagerie for wild animals where a leopard and an orangutan were kept in the 18th century.

Bowood House is the stately home of the Lansdowne family and has been the residence of:

* Lansdowne House

Another celebrated image of Washington is the Lansdowne portrait, a large portrait with one version hanging in the East Room of the White House.

Lansdowne House is a building to the southwest of Berkeley Square in central London, England.

The family's former London residence was Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square.

Lord Lansdowne claimed that in 1869 Major Wingfield gave a demonstration of the game to him in the garden of his Berkeley Square house, although in that year Wingfield was not a major.

Kenmore Square is close to or abuts Boston University, Fenway Park, and Lansdowne Street, a center of Boston nightlife.

Signed in London on 8 April 1904 by Lansdowne and the French ambassador Paul Cambon, it marked the end of centuries of Anglo-French rivalry and Britain's splendid isolation from Continental affairs, and attempted to counterbalance the growing dominance of the German Empire and its ally, Austria-Hungary.

When Itō reached London, he had talks with Lord Lansdowne which helped lay the groundwork for the Anglo-Japanese Alliance announced early the following year.

* Anonymous, De vita sanctae Edburgae virginis, preserved in the early fourteenth-century MS Lansdowne 436, f. 41v-43v ( British Library, London ), ed.

The four-piece found themselves booked into the Lansdowne Studios in London, still under the name of Spice.

The great grandson of the British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne ( later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne ), and the eldest son of the 4th Marquess of Lansdowne and his wife, Emily, 8th Lady Nairne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice was born in London in 1845.

As British Foreign Secretary, he signed the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance at his London home ( now the Lansdowne Club ) and negotiated the 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale with the French foreign minister, Theophile Delcassé.

: Lansdowne Crescent, London W11 2NN, England, United Kingdom

This is printed in the Works of George Granville, Lord Lansdowne ( London, 1736 ), where Lansdowne's vindication of his kinsman, Sir Richard, against Clarendon's charges is also found.

Lansdowne chaired the inaugural meeting of the London Statistical Society, and was its first president ( 1834 – 1836 ).

Crosland and his wife bought a converted mill at Adderbury in 1975 as well as having a home at Lansdowne Road in London.

It was founded in London in April 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Peel, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors along with various other nobility, clergy, and naturalists.

In Germany there was skepticism amongst senior ministers that anything would come of this apparent new friendliness, but serious negotiations for a formal alliance began between the French ambassador to London, Cambon, and the British Foreign Secretary, the Marquess of Lansdowne.

He rented Lansdowne House in London until 1893, when he purchased a country estate at Cliveden-on-Thames in Taplow, Buckinghamshire from the Duke of Westminster.

On January 30, 1902, the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London between the Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne and Hayashi Tadasu, the Japanese Minister.

The first was signed in London at what is now the Lansdowne Club, on January 30, 1902, by Lord Lansdowne ( British foreign secretary ) and Hayashi Tadasu ( Japanese minister in London ).

In England in 1834, he married Elizabeth Emily, daughter of the British Deputy Secretary at War, William Merry ( 1762 – 1855 ) of Lansdowne Terrace, Cheltenham, by his wife Anne, daughter of Kender Mason of Beel House, Buckinghamshire, the sister of Henry Mason, who married a niece of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.

* July 5 – First English Civil War – Battle of Lansdowne: Royalists and Parliamentarians battle to a draw.

Construction finished in 2006 on the Shrewsbury – Lansdowne Interstate 44 St. Louis MetroLink station on the eastern edge of the city, at Lansdowne Avenue and River Des Peres Boulevard.

* East Lansdowne Borough, Delaware County – southeast

* Lansdowne Borough, Delaware County – south

* Marquess of Lansdowne 1903 – 1912

* Lord Lansdowne – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

* Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne ( 22 November 1830 – 15 December 1834 )

* Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne ( 18 April 1835 – 3 September 1841 )

* Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne ( 6 July 1846 – 27 February 1852 )

The compromise, known as the January Memorial, was settled on by Carson, James Craig, Law and Lansdowne at Law's house between 6 – 8 January, affirmed the support the signers had of Law and his policies, noting that his resignation was not wanted.

Most of Wilkie's foreign subjects – the Pifferari, Princess Doria, the Maid of Saragossa, the Spanish Podado, a Guerilla Council of War, the Guerilla Taking Leave of his Family and the Guerilla's Return to his Family – passed into the English royal collection ; but the dramatic Two Spanish Monks of Toledo, also entitled the Confessor Confessing, became the property of the marquis of Lansdowne.

* George Granville, Lord Lansdowne – Poems Upon Several Occasions

* The Marquess of Lansdowne – Secretary of State for the Home Department

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne ( 4 January 1845 – 3 June 1927 ) was a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC ( 2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805 ), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782 – 1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence.

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS ( 2 July 1780 – 31 January 1863 ), known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman.

The motion gives the GAA Central Council the power to authorise the renting or leasing of Croke Park for events other than those controlled by the Association, during a period when Lansdowne Road – the venue for international soccer and rugby matches – was closed for redevelopment.