Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire.

* Wentworth Woodhouse

Wentworth Woodhouse from A Complete History of the County of York by Thomas Allen ( 1828 – 30 ).

Motto: " Mea Gloria Fides " (" Trust is My Renown "), which is displayed in large Roman capitals on the frieze of the classical pediment of Wentworth Woodhouse

Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house near the village of Wentworth, in the vicinity of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

Wentworth Woodhouse is effectively two separate houses, forming West and East Fronts.

The English Baroque, brick-built, western range of Wentworth Woodhouse was begun in 1725 by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, after 1728 Lord Malton after he inherited it from his father in 1723.

Flitcroft was Burlington's professional architectural ammanuensis — " Burlington Harry " as he was called ; he had prepared for the engravers the designs of Inigo Jones published by Burlington and William Kent in 1727, and in fact Kent was also called in for confabulation over Wentworth Woodhouse, mediated by Sir Thomas Robinson, though in the event the pedestrian Flitcroft was not unseated and continued to provide designs for the house over the following decade: he revised and enlarged Tunnicliffe's provincial Baroque West Front and added wings, as well as temples and other structures in the park.

Wentworth Woodhouse was inherited by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, briefly Prime Minister in 1765-66 and again in 1782.

Wentworth Woodhouse, with all its contents, subsequently passed to the family of the Marquess's sister, the Earls Fitzwilliam.

Joe Hall, Yorkshire branch President of the National Union of Mineworkers said that the " miners in this area will go to almost any length rather than see Wentworth Woodhouse destroyed.

East front of Wentworth Woodhouse in 2004.

* Wentworth Woodhouse entry from The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses

* Wentworth Village — Wentworth Woodhouse

* Wentworth Woodhouse from The University of York

* Satellite view of Wentworth Woodhouse house and stables

A descendant of the 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Rockingham was brought up at the family home of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in South Yorkshire.

He was born in London, the son of Sir William Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, a member of an old Yorkshire family, and of Ally, daughter of Sir Robert Atkins of Stowell, Gloucestershire.

In connection with this he decided to use his powers to compulsorily mine the picturesque grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse, home of former mine owner the Earl FitzWilliam.

Motto: " Mea Gloria Fides " (" Trust is My Renown "), which is displayed in large Roman capitals on the frieze of the classical pediment of Wentworth Woodhouse.

The family seats were Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire, and Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire.

Other schools are Rockingham County Early College ( for high school students only ), and Rockingham Community College, located in Wentworth.

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Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm.

Charles Stewart was born on August 26, 1868, in Strabane, Ontario, on Wentworth County, to Charles and Catherine Stewart.

McMaster has a number of administrative offices at its Downtown Centre, located in Hamilton in the former Wentworth County Courthouse.

* Wentworth Woods ( Cook County Forest Preserves )

Wentworth was responsible for naming them, choosing names of current British leaders ( including Rockingham ), but also name Strafford County after one of his distant relatives, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.

His cousin, Governor Wentworth, appointed him the probate register for Strafford County, and he held that post until his death.

The title of Baron Allendale, of Allendale and Hexham in the County of Northumberland, had been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 20 July 1906 for his father, the Yorkshire mining magnate and Liberal Member of Parliament, Wentworth Beaumont.

Dundas was then incorporated in 1847 as part of Wentworth County.

The township's easternmost section ( around the village of Clyde ) was originally part of Wentworth County ( now the city of Hamilton ); it was transferred to Waterloo Region in the 1970s.