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William Weddell, portrait by Pompeo Batoni, frequented by many young Englishmen on the Grand Tour
Monument to William Weddell, Ripon Cathedral

William Weddell (13 May 1736 – 30 April 1792) of Newby Hall in the parish of Skelton-on-Ure, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1766 and 1792. He created a notable collection of antiquities including the Barberini Venus.

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William Weddell

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William Weddell (13 May 1736 – 30 April 1792) of Newby Hall in the parish of Skelton-on-Ure, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was a British...

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Newby Hall

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Richard Elcock (later Richard Elcock Weddell), to whose young son William Weddell it passed in 1762. William Weddell (1736–1792), an MP for the constituency...

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Weddell Sea

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The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats...

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Edmund Burke

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Catholicism. The Burgh (Burke) dynasty descends from the Anglo-Norman knight, William de Burgh, who arrived in Ireland in 1185 following Henry II of England's...

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Nappa Hall

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the surname Weddell, with remainder to Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham. The Weddells of Newby Hall made some improvements. William Weddell (1736-1792)...

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Weddell Island

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Weddell Island (Spanish: Isla San José) is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is...

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Barberini Venus

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community established in Rome, and then from him in the spring of 1765 by William Weddell of Newby Hall, Yorkshire, who was on the Grand Tour. The undisclosed...

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Mimi Weddell

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Marion Rogers "Mimi' Weddell (February 15, 1915 – September 24, 2009) was an American actress. She is best known for portraying Stanford's grandmother...

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Thomas Chippendale

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Yorkshire, for Edwin Lascelles (1767–78); Newby Hall, Yorkshire, for William Weddell (c. 1772–76); Temple Newsam, Yorkshire, for Lord Irwin (1774); Paxton...

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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

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Books. ISBN 0-670-03026-0. OCLC 150844927. Guilding, Ruth, and others, William Weddell and the transformation of Newby Hall, Jeremy Mills Publishing for Leeds...

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John Weddell

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John Weddell (1583–1642) was an English sea captain who served for the Muscovy Company and then the East India Company (EIC). From May to August 1617...

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Savile Finch

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1761–1780 With: John Mostyn 1761–1768 The Viscount Downe 1768–1774 Edmund Burke 1774–1775 William Weddell 1775–1780 Succeeded by Edmund Burke William Weddell...

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Sawley Abbey

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when Fulke Grenville sold Sawley to William Weddell of Newby Hall. Upon his death in 1792 it passed to Weddell's distant cousin, Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl...

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RAF Uxbridge

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in 1804. She left the estate to her stepsister Elizabeth, widow of William Weddell MP, who sold it to Josias Du Pré Porcher in 1805. In 1810 the estate...

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A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery

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1080/000337900296308. S2CID 145603120. Guilding, Ruth; et al. (2004). William Weddell and the transformation of Newby Hall. Jeremy Mills Publishing for Leeds...

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Hillingdon House

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upon which the estate passed to her stepsister Elizabeth, widow of William Weddell MP. Her husband had left her Newby Hall in Mayfair, therefore having...

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List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1777

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conveyed to them. William Weddell's Estate Act 1777 17 Geo. 3. c. 92 7 May 1777 An Act for vesting Part of the Settled Estates of William Weddell Esquire, in...

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Giles Worsley

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Drawing from the Past: William Weddell and the Transformation of Newby Hall (2005) by Giles Worsley, Kerry Bristol, and William Connor (catalogue of 2004–5...

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List of MPs elected in the 1780 British general election

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Burke 1780 Malton (seat 2/2) William Weddell Marlborough (seat 1/2) The Earl of Courtown Marlborough (seat 2/2) William Woodley Merionethshire (seat 1/1)...

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Southern Ocean

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the Weddell Sea) but Weddell decided to turn back. The first land south of the parallel 60° south latitude was discovered by the Englishman William Smith...

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1765 in art

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of Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave Nathaniel Dance – William Weddell, The Reverend William Palgrave and Mr Janson in Rome Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The...

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List of MPs elected in the 1774 British general election

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(seat 2/2) William Strahan Tory Malton (seat 1/2) Savile Finch Malton (seat 2/2) Edmund Burke – sat for Bristol Replaced by William Weddell 1775 Whig Marlborough...

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