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    Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately...
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    1804) of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire was an English Tory politician and peer. Curzon was the son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet of Kedleston, and his...
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    Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI (née Leiter; 27 May 1870 – 18 July 1906) was a British aristocrat of American background who was...
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    Baron Curzon of Kedleston, who was created Earl Curzon of Kedleston at the same time and was later made Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The first member...
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    Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911...
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    Paxton House, Berwickshire South front, Kedleston Hall Cross section, Kedleston Hall Kedleston Hall, Marble Hall South front, Stowe House, slightly modified...
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    Alexandra at the second Delhi Durbar in 1903. It is today kept in the Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, as part of its collection. The dress features a design...
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    to build Kedleston Hall, the historic residence of the Curzon family now run by the National Trust. The parish Church adjacent to the hall All Saints...
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    with the landscape, while some of the great houses such as Kedleston Hall and Holkham Hall were built as "power houses" to dominate the landscape, and...
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    Garinet, Châlons-en-Champagne Portrait de Mary Victoria Leiter (1887), Kedleston Hall, England, Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (Cléopâtre...
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    the medieval village of Kedleston, which was demolished in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon to make way for the adjacent Kedleston Hall, a country house in Derbyshire...
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    inhabitants of the need to enter the house by the servant's floor below. Kedleston Hall is an example of this in England, as is Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in...
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    Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet (1676–1758) of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire was an English Tory politician who represented three constituencies in the...
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    with porticos and pediments, often resembling, as at the much later Kedleston Hall, small country houses in their own right. Architectural styles evolve...
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    earlier, employed at Seaton Delaval Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh. One of these wings, as at the later Kedleston Hall, was a self-contained country house...
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  • clergyman. He was the father of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, who was the Conservative Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary...
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    Curzon's father as the heir presumptive to the family estates based on Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire and the peerage of Baron Scarsdale. His uncle was also...
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    aristocratic commissions, predominantly in East Anglia, but including work at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. In addition to designing their country houses, Brettingham...
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    espied by Juno by Andrea Sacchi and Pier Francesco Mola (1600 - 1699) at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire (Accredited Museum) Juno, Jupiter and Io by Gerbrand van...
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  • Film Studios and on location at Chatsworth, Bath, Holkham Hall, Clandon Park, Kedleston Hall, Somerset House, King's College London and the Old Royal Naval...
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    Government House was designed by Capt. Charles Wyatt on the lines of Kedleston Hall, the Curzon family in Derbyshire. The building follows a neoclassical...
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    peer. Curzon was the son of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale of Kedleston Hall, and his wife Lady Caroline Colyear. Among his siblings were Admiral...
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    on number of country houses such as Chatsworth House, Thorndon Hall and Kedleston Hall. James Paine was probably baptised 9 October 1717 at Andover, Hampshire...
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    Nikita Khrushchev put an end to expensive Stalinist architecture. Kedleston Hall, Kedleston, Derbyshire, England, by Robert Adam, 1760–1770 Eating Room, Osterley...
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  • parish contains the village of Kedleston and the surrounding area. The major building in the parish is Kedleston Hall, which is listed together with associated...
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    Davenport and Company. List of desk forms and types BBC Antiques Roadshow, "Kedleston Hall", 8/10/2006 Davenport desk belonging to the Shrewsbury Museums Service...
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  • from Holland were mixed with trees sculpted by the art department. Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire stood in for the Greystoke Manor, and a cedar tree on...
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    as Calke Abbey, Hardwick Hall, High Peak Estate, Ilam Park, Kedleston Hall, Longshaw Estate near Hathersage, and Sudbury Hall on the Staffordshire border...
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    neoclassical architect and interior designer Robert Adam, and put in place at Kedleston Hall near Derby.: 69  By the 19th century Blue John was being fashioned into...
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  • arranged with the National Trust for the festival to be held at Kedleston Park within Kedleston Hall in Derby, an 80-acre parkland. In 2011 Bearded Theory won...
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