This attractive colour plate is one of a Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britian and Ireland as presented by F. O. Morris.
A greater proportion of the drawings were by Alexander F. Lydon, and printed from coloured wood-blocks using the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett.
Published by William Mackenzie, Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin.
Condition: EXCELLENT CONDITION. The colors are rich and bright and the image shows elaborate detail and is in Excellent Condition. Blank on Reverse side and printed on heavy quality paper.
Excerpt from the old descriptive: SWITHLAND HALL, NEAR MOUNTSORRELL, LEICESTERSHIRE.-EARL OP LANESBOROUGH. SWITHLAND HALL is situated in a lordship of that name, containing about one thousand and eighty acres of land. It is situate two miles from Mountsorrell, five from Loughborough, and seven from Leicester, south of Woodhouse. In the time of King Henry the Third this manor was the inheritance of SIR. WILLIAM DE WALLIES, with whose posterity it continued until the reign of Richard the Second, when it passed by marriage to SIR JOHN DE WALCOTE, Knight. It subsequently became the property of SIR. JOHN DANVERS, whose daughter wedded the HONOURABLE AUGUSTUS RICHARD BUTLER, second son of the Earl of Lanesborough, who thereupon, as below referred to, assumed the name Of DANVERS. The family of Lord Lanesborough derives from JOHN BUTLER Of Waresley, in Huntingdonshire, whose descendant, SIR. STEPHEN BUTLER, settled in Ireland in the reign of King James the First. He died in 1639, and was succeeded by his eldest son, JAMES BUTLER, ESQ. Of Belturbet, whose brother, STEPHEN BUTLER, Esq. M.P. for Belturbet, married Anne, daughter of the first Lord Santry, and was followed by his eldest son, FRANCIS BUTLER Esq. M.P. for Belturbet, whose eldest son, THEOPPHILUS BUTLER Esq. created Baron of Newtown-Butler, was succeeded by his brother, BRINSLEY BUTLER, second Baron, Gentleman-usher of the Black Rod, and Colonel of the Battle-axe Guard in Ireland, who represented the county of Cavan in Parliament, and was made Viscount Lanesborough on the 12th. of August, 1728. He had twenty-three children, five only of whom survived infancy, and his eldest son, HUMPHREY BUTLER, second Viscount-Lanesboroug, was raised to the earldom in 1756, and his son, BRINSLEY BUTLER, second Earl of Lanesborough, had with other issue, AUGUSTUS RICHARD BUTLER, the Second Son, Who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir John Danvers, Bart., when he assumed the additional name and arms of Danvers, and his eldest son, GEORGE JOHN DANVERS BUTLER-DANVERS, became of Swithland Hall.
A copy of the circa 1870s descriptive, which covers some wonderful landscape history of SWITHLAND HALL and some genealogy information will be included with the print |
