May 2012 - Friends of Lydiard Park

Published on: 31st May 2012

Elizabeth Armistead's client list reads like a who's who of 18th century society. The scurrilous Town and Country Magazine...

Published on: 27th May 2012

When Lady Johanna St John wrote her will in 1703 she left personal bequests to her son Henry and daughters Johanna Chute and...

Published on: 24th May 2012

Emma Whitbread was probably most men’s idea of the perfect wife. When she wed Henry Beauchamp, 13th Baron St John of...

Published on: 22nd May 2012

By 1762 the marriage between Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and his wife Diana, eldest daughter of Charles, 2nd...

Published on: 20th May 2012

When William Cobbett visited Lydiard Tregoze on his fact finding tour of 1826 he observed that the estate had once been a...

Published on: 17th May 2012

It has to be said that the St John men didn't always make model husbands. Those who married into the family were also...

Published on: 12th May 2012

Louisa St John was born c1744 just as building work on Lydiard House drew to a close. The only surviving daughter of John,...

Published on: 10th May 2012

When Jane married Sir Henry Paulet St John in 1786 he got more than he bargained for – a fortune and a new...

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