翻訳と辞書
Words near each other
・ Peterborough County municipal elections, 2010
・ Peterborough County municipal elections, 2014
・ Peterborough Development Corporation
・ Peterborough District Hospital
・ Peterborough ditch murders
・ Peterborough East
・ Peterborough East railway station
・ Peterborough Evening Telegraph
・ Peterborough Examiner
・ Peterborough Festival
・ Peterborough Folk Festival
・ Peterborough Greyhound Stadium
・ Peterborough Handball Club
・ Peterborough Herald and Post
・ Peterborough High School
Peterborough House
・ Peterborough Islanders
・ Peterborough Lakers
・ Peterborough Lakers (MSL)
・ Peterborough Lakers Jr. A
・ Peterborough Lido
・ Peterborough Lift Lock
・ Peterborough Lions RFC
・ Peterborough Memorial Centre
・ Peterborough municipal election, 2000
・ Peterborough municipal election, 2003
・ Peterborough municipal election, 2006
・ Peterborough municipal election, 2010
・ Peterborough Museum & Archives
・ Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery


Dictionary Lists
翻訳と辞書 辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ]
スポンサード リンク

Peterborough House : ウィキペディア英語版
Peterborough House

Peterborough House (''alias'' Millbank House, later Grosvenor House), Millbank, Westminster, was a London townhouse owned by the Mordaunt family, Earls of Peterborough and later by the Grosvenor family. It was the most westerly townhouse in the City of Westminster.
==History==
The mansion was built by John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and remained the property of his descendants until the death in 1735 of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough. It was then purchased by a member of the Grosvenor family. It has been erroneously stated that it was purchased or built in 1660 by Alexander Davis of the adjoining manor of Ebury, whose sole daughter and heiress, Mary Davis, in 1676 married Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet (1655-1700), and was the mother of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet (1689-1732) who inherited the house, and further vast property in London, in right of his mother. However Pennant (1793) stated: "that here, in his boyish days, he had often experienced the hospitality of Sir Robert Grosvenor (i.e. the 6th Baronet (1695-1755), younger brother of 4th and 5th baronets) and that this house came by purchase of one of his family (doubtless his maternal grandfather) from the Mordaunts Earls of Peterborough".〔Pennant, Thomas, ''Some Account of London'', 1793, quoted in ''Londina Illustrata''〕 In Hollar's four sheet ''View of London and Westminster'', published in 1666, the mansion is clearly shown with the name "Peterborough House" under it, "a distinction not very likely to be given, had the Earl of Peterborough only been tenant to the Davis family, and not the ostensible proprietor himself".〔''Londina Illustrata''〕
Before 1708 it had been let to Mr. Bull, a merchant,〔As shown in Hatton's ''New View of London'', 1708〕 at which time the Earl of Peterborough was servings his country in Spain, and in the years 1710 and 1711 was employed on an embassy to Turin, and other Italian courts. "These engagements rendered an expensive establishment at home to him quite unnecessary".〔''Londina Illustrata''〕
" The present (1892) Earl Grosvenor's grandfather resided in this house until 1755 after which time it was inhabited by Lord Delaval, and Mr. Symmons. Lord Delaval then had it in his own occupation, and occasionally lived in it for nearly 20 years, until 1809, when it was demolished to facilitate the redevelopment of Millbank by the Grosvenor Estate.
Peterborough House and grounds occupied about seven acres, bounded on the east by the River Thames on the south by the former estate of the Marquis of Salisbury, later owned by the UK Government, on the west by Tothill Fields, owned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey, and on the north by the Horseferry Road, originally leading from the fields to the ferry to Lambeth. In 1822 the estate was leased by the Grosvenor Estate to John Johnson, who in 1822 was "considerably improving this quarter of the Metropolis, by forming new streets, etc."
Thomas Pennant in his ''Some Account of London'' related of Peterborough House (by then "Grosvenor House"):
:"Here, in my boyish days, I often experienced the hospitality of the late Sir Robert Grosvenor, its worthy owner, who enjoyed it, by the purchase by one of his family from the Mordaunts, Earls of Peterborough. All the rest of his vast property about London devolved on him in right of his mother, Mary, daughter and heiress of Alexander Davies, of Ebury, in the County of Middlesex. I find, in the plan of London by Hollar, a mansion on this spot under the name of Peterborough House. It probably was built by the first Earl of Peterborough. It was inhabited by his successors, and retained its name till the time of the death of that great but irregular genius, Charles, Earl of Peterborough, in 1735.''
Pennant also referred to the mansion as "Millbank House", which name is corroborated by an entry in the minutes of the Vestry of St. John's Church, Westminster. On the 28th February,
1812, a committee appointed to visit the parish boundaries
at Millbank reported an alteration of the public footway
in front of the site where Lord Grosvenor's house "called
Millbank House formerly stood", apparently made under
Section 51 of the Act of Parliament ''49 Geo. III., cap. 142'', the Vauxhall Bridge Act. This is the first mention of the bridge in the Vestry minutes. According to the Act the footpath should not have been closed until "each branch road from the intended bridge through the forecourt of Earl Grosvenor's house
should have been completed." According to Dod's Peerage
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury was born at Millbank House, Westminster, on April 24th, 1801.
It was whilst living here, in 1735, that Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough (d.1735), was privately married to his second wife, Mrs. Anastasia Robinson, the celebrated contralto
vocalist. He died the same year, after which the house was
rebuilt by the Grosvenor family. The
Earl of Wilton, brother of the late (1822) Marquess, and uncle of the present (1822) Duke of Westminster, was also born here.
This mansion was the subject of a witty repost made by Joe Miller(1684-1738) in his fcst Book under the title of "high living": "Peterborough House, which is the very last in London one way,〔i.e. most westerly in Westminster〕 being rebuilt, a gentleman asked another 'who lived in it'? His
friend told him 'Sir Robert Grosvenor.' 'I don't know,' said
the first, 'what estate Sir Robert has, but he ought to have
a very good one ; for nobody lives beyond him〔Double meaning: "more westerly" and "more lavishly"〕 in the whole
town.'"
Another witty repost is recorded as follows: As the dramatist and poet Congreve (1670- 1729) was once being rowed in a ferry up the Thames at Millbank, the waterman remarked that, owing to its bad foundation, Peterborough House had sunk a story. "No friend," said he, "I rather believe it is a story raised."

抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)
ウィキペディアで「Peterborough House」の詳細全文を読む



スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース

Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.