Authors: Catherine Bailey
Tags: #History, #England/Great Britain, #Nonfiction, #Royalty, #Politics & Government, #18th Century, #19th Century, #20th Century
Black Diamonds (64 page)
4. The Whistlejacket Room at Wentworth House, 1924
5 and 6. William, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam, and his wife, Harriet, Countess Fitzwilliam, c. 1865
7. William, Lord Milton, photographed in the Pillared Hall at Wentworth House, c. 1860
8. Billy, later 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, as a boy in 1878
9. Lord Milton (second from right, with headband) and his expedition party after crossing the Rockies in September 1863. William Cheadle, his physician, is seated to his right
10. Laura, Lord Milton’s wife, after the birth of their eldest daughter, c. 1870
11. A lithograph, dated 1869, taken from an original watercolour depicting the rugged landscape around Pointe de Meuron. The house where Billy was born is visible in the distance
12. The house in Pointe de Meuron where Billy, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, was born
13. A group of male indoor staff at Wentworth House, 1912
14. The outdoor servants at Wentworth House, c. 1906
15. The housekeeper and a group of housemaids at Wentworth House, c. 1890
16. A ploughing team on the Wentworth Estate, c. 1900
17. Maud, Lady Milton, later Countess Fitzwilliam, dressed as Madame Le Brun at the Devonshire House Costume Ball in July 1897
18. Miners from the Fitzwilliams’ collieries outside the gates to Wentworth Park, c. 1910