Identifier: seriesofpictures04morr (find matches)
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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ery considerably to thefamily property, and was great-grandfather of Sir George Gordon, fourth Earl of Aberdeen, who entering the public service earlyin this century, was engaged as His Majestys Plenipotentiary during the wars whichterminated with the battle of Waterloo. He occupied different great ofl&ces of stateunder the Duke of Wellington and Sir Eobert Peel, and finally became Her MajestysPrime Minister in 1852. Being at the same time Knight of the Garter and Knightof the Thistle, he was the only individual so decorated since the reign of QueenAnne. He died in 1860, after a possession of fifty-nine years. He was followed byhis eldest son. Sir Charles John Jambs Gordon, fifth Eail, whose eldest son. Sir George Gordon, sixth Earl, after a singular and romantic career of his ownchoice, was accidentally drowned at sea, January 27th., 1870, when he was succeededby his only surviving brother. Sir John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, D.L. for the County of Aberdeen, bornAugust 3rd., 1847.
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BARONS COUET, COUNTY TYKONE, IRELAND. DUKE OF ABEECOEN. Baeons Couet^ the seat of the Duke of Abercorn in Ireland, is a very extensivedomain, the grounds belonging to the park and woods extending to between fiveand six thousand acres, surrounded by an estate of about eighty thousand acresin the counties of Tyrone and Donegal. The house was originally built from designs by Sir William Chambers, in 1742,but has been much enlarged by succeeding proprietors. It contains several very finerooms, the principal of which are,—the Gallery, or Drawing-room, one hundred feetby twenty-two; the Dining-room, fifty feet by twenty-eight, and twenty-two feethigh; the Hall, thirty-eight feet by twenty-eight, and twenty-two feet high; theBilliard Room, a circular apartment, thirty feet in diameter and thirty feet high; andthe Staircase, thirty feet by twenty-eight, and thirty feet high. From the house, extending to one of the lakes, are terraced gardens of greatbeauty, in the Italian style, with stone

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