EditorialMary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton, 17th Baroness le Despencer, aged 15. Later wife of Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth. Hair in ringlets, wearing an off-the-shoulder dress with ribbons and lace, lace bloomers, holding a pet squirrel, bonnet on gro...
EditorialMary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton, 17th Baroness le Despencer, aged 15. Later wife of Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth. Hair in ringlets, wearing an off-the-shoulder dress with ribbons and lace, lace bloomers, holding a pet squirrel, bonnet on gro...
EditorialThomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, 6th Baron le Despencer (1501-1551), English peer and courtier. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, Lon...
EditorialThomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, 6th Baron le Despencer (1501-1551), English peer and courtier. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, Lon...
EditorialThomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, 6th Baron le Despencer (1501-1551), English peer and courtier. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, Lon...
EditorialThe Beauchamp chantry, built by Isabella Despencer in memory of her first husband Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Abergavenny and Worcester, who was killed at the siege of Meaux in 1421.