. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . THE HOLBEIN FROMT OF WILTON HOUSE to be embalmed, he was observed (on the incision being-made) to lift up his hand. This circumstance may be de-pended upon as fact, having been related by a member of thefamily, and was considered by the faculty to afford strong pre-sumptive evidence that the distemper of which he died wasapoplexy. He was Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward toCharles I., and married a daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury:but, dying in 1630 without issue living, he was succeeded by hisbrother, Philip, fourth Earl, who had been
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . THE HOLBEIN FROMT OF WILTON HOUSE to be embalmed, he was observed (on the incision being-made) to lift up his hand. This circumstance may be de-pended upon as fact, having been related by a member of thefamily, and was considered by the faculty to afford strong pre-sumptive evidence that the distemper of which he died wasapoplexy. He was Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward toCharles I., and married a daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury:but, dying in 1630 without issue living, he was succeeded by hisbrother, Philip, fourth Earl, who had been already created Earl of. THE CORNER ROOM. WILTON HOUSE I83 184 TWUIton Ibonse Montgomery. He was Lord Chamberlain to Charles I., andforms the central figure of Van Dycks celebrated picture of theHerbert family, which fills the whole of one end of the DoubleCube Room, and which is the largest picture that that artist everpainted. This was the Earl in whose time a great portion of thehouse was destroyed by fire (which event he refers to in hisspeech in the House of Lords, when attainted for high treason)
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