Gibside and the Bowes Family
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- Author(s) Wills, Margaret M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1995
- Pages 115pp; illus
- Publisher Phillimore for Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Place Published Chichester
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with Gibside house and estate which was inherited by Sir George Bowes, 1701-60, in c1722. It became his principle residence. It had passed into the Bowes family following the marriage of his father, Sir William Bowes, to Elizabeth Blakiston in 1693. It was managed alongside the Bowes family's existing estate at Streatlam. On his death passed to Earls of Strathmore and went into decline. Written by an architectural historian and focuses on the house. Draws on her doctoral dissertation, 'Gibside. Three generations of the Bowes family and their estate, 1701-1820', Newcastle, 1988. Has sections: 'George Bowes, 1701-60', the largest section; 'Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, 1749-1800'; 'John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore, 1769-1820'; 'John Bowes, 1811-85'; 'The legacy of George Bowes'