tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705771450596300887.post7249117526089172974..comments2024-03-28T07:36:37.715+00:00Comments on Lord Belmont in Northern Ireland: 9th Marquess of Londonderry, 1937-2012Timothy Belmonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15111145260662707575noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705771450596300887.post-86895993543801006722023-01-01T22:38:50.917+00:002023-01-01T22:38:50.917+00:00I used to pick him regularly from his sisters in ...I used to pick him regularly from his sisters in petersham he was truly the most intresting customer I ever picked up very generous very polite a true gentleman with an amazing memory I once told him that my father went to school with Harold Pinter I didn’t see him then for about 10 years as I was working for myself then I got a job to pick him up first thing he said when he got in the car it’s Derek isn’t your father went to school with Harold Pinter an amazing manDerek kligernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705771450596300887.post-41159529294523187562012-10-17T18:26:26.098+01:002012-10-17T18:26:26.098+01:00The Mount Stewart Gardens were given to The Nation...The Mount Stewart Gardens were given to The National Trust in 1957, then Mount Stewart House and most of it's contents were also given to The National Trust in 1977. Therefore, it all belongs to The National Trust already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705771450596300887.post-36661267474835642582012-06-22T13:04:50.409+01:002012-06-22T13:04:50.409+01:00The Long Newton and Wynyard Park estates were comp...The Long Newton and Wynyard Park estates were completely separate former landholdings of the Londonderry family (both sold by the 9th Marquess)in NE England, some distance apart from each other. The former was the estate of the Vanes, the family ownership dating back to the seventeenth century, and the latter (Wynyard) was an estate bought by the Tempest family in 1742.<br /><br />As regards the third landholding, linked to the third name in Vane-Tempest-Stewart, it would seem that there is nothing "erstwhile" about Mount Stewart. The Mount Stewart landed estate (bought by the Stewarts in 1744) currently belongs to the Executors of the late Lady Mairi Bury JP and there has been no public announcement of any intention of Lady Mairi's heirs to sell that estate in County Down, which has been in continuous family ownership for 268 years so far. It is very appropriate indeed for the 9th Marquess to be buried in the same county of Down of the United Kingdom, which includes Castlereagh borough, as his forebears.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705771450596300887.post-38435848585723637902012-06-21T22:41:53.421+01:002012-06-21T22:41:53.421+01:00Interesting to note that the funeral will be at Mo...Interesting to note that the funeral will be at Mount Stewart, the erstwhile Irish seat. This is where the 7th Marquess and his wife, Alistair's grandparents Charley and Edith, are buried along with his aunt, Lady Mairi, who died in 2009. <br /><br />His own parents were reinterred at St. Mary's Church, Long Newton in County Durham following the sale of Wynyard Park, where they were first buried. <br /><br />Although the Londonderry (or rather the Vane-Tempest) vault is at Long Newton, I did wonder whether this would be too remote as a final resting place considering there is no longer a connection at Wynyard. It would seem Mount Stewart is the most appropriate place, all things considered.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15132311921321896636noreply@blogger.com