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Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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to John, second Marquis ofBute, who died in September, 1841. He married, secondly, Susan, daughter ofThomas Coutts, Esq., the eminent banker, and had two daughters. Lady Susan North, and Lady Georgiana North, who died August 25th., 1835. At his Lordship^s death, April 20th., 1802, the Barony fell into abeyance betweenthese three ladies, and so continued until the death of the eldest and youngest,when it rested in the elder daughter of the second marriage, who then became Baroness North. Her ladyship married, November 18th., 1835, Colonel JohnSydney Doyle, who assumed the name of North in 1838, and was elected M.P. forOxfordshire in 1852, 1857, and 1865. Their son, William Henry John North, born October 5th., 1836, of Kirtling, in the countyof Cambridge, Captain in the Queen^s Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, married,January 12th., 1858, Frederica, daughter of Richard Howe Cockerell, Esq., CommanderR.N., and had with other issue, William Frederick John North, born October 13th., 1860.
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HADDO HOUSE, ABERDEENSHIRE. EARL OP ABERDEEN. Haddo House is very pleasantly situated in the Formatine district of Aberdeenshire.The policies and deer park are a triumph of landscape gardening. The grounds,though undulating, are without much natural beauty; but by the good taste of thefourth Earl of Aberdeen, the well-known Prime Minister, they were skilfully adornedwith vast plantations, intersected with drives extending over sixty miles, producingan effect both stately and picturesque—an effect greatly added to by three lakes ofgreat beauty, the resort of innumerable wildfowl. One of the lakes is highly stockedwith trout from Loch Leven. It was to the fourth Earl of Aberdeen that the Highland Societys gold medalwas awarded, as the then most extensive planter of trees, upwards of four thousandacres having been planted by him in the earlier days of his occupation of HaddoHouse. The House was built in 1732, by William, the second Earl. It contains severalcelebrated pictures by the ol

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