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12-460: Belvedere House may mean: Belvedere House and Gardens , a famous country house in county Westmeath, Ireland Belvedere House, Erith , London Belvedere House on Belvedere Estate , a house in Calcutta, India that housed government officials in the colonial era Belvidere House , original of Belvidere Hospital , Glasgow Belvedere House (Dublin) ,

24-531: A townhouse in Dublin, Ireland Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Belvedere House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belvedere_House&oldid=1258908753 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

36-639: A walled garden. He was High Sheriff of Westmeath for 1853 and 1906, Louth for 1863 and Cavan for 1885. He stood as one of the two Conservative candidates for the Grantham constituency at the 1880 general election but they both lost. He became a member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club , which held a manuscript exhibition in 1908 organised by Sydney Cockerell , Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum . Marlay lent some of his own manuscripts to

48-469: Is also Victorian walled garden and several hectares of forest. The house has been fully restored and the grounds attract approximately 160,000 visitors annually. The house was initially built by Robert Rochfort as a retreat, having incarcerated his wife in their previous home at Gaulstown , for an alleged affair with his brother Arthur. Arthur was later put on trial and fined £20,000 which he could not pay. Arthur spent 18 years in debtors' prison in Dublin but

60-559: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Belvedere House and Gardens Belvedere House and Gardens is a country house located approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) from Mullingar , County Westmeath in Ireland on the north-east shore of Lough Ennell . It was built in 1740 as a hunting lodge for Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere by architect Richard Cassels , one of Ireland's foremost Palladian architects. The house

72-470: Is known for its Diocletian windows and nineteenth-century terracing. When Robert Rochfort decided to use Belvedere as his principal residence, he employed French stuccatore Barthelemij Cramillion, to execute the Rococo plasterwork ceilings. The landscaped demesne has the largest folly and spite wall in the country, The Jealous Wall , built to block off the view of his estranged brother's house nearby. There

84-619: The exhibition. Cockerell also went to meet him in July 1908 to discuss "an addition to the Fitzwilliam". Marlay was keen to bequeath his collection but the Fitzwilliam did not yet have enough space or staff to cope with it and so Marlay also offered a financial bequest, bargained up from £50,000 to £80,000 thanks to Cockerell and also finally including the lease on Marlay's London house. Marley died at St. Katharine's Lodge, Regent's Park on 18 June 1912. He made good on his offer to Cockerell and also left

96-433: The museum eighteen books, 240 cuttings from 12th to 16th century illuminated manuscripts, all the manuscripts he had loaned in 1908, 84 paintings, prints, decorative arts, jewellery, glassware, carpets and Japanese artworks as well as some works that Cockerell disposed of as "modern, imitation, or of too low standard for an important museum". However, the money bequeathed by Marlay did still enable building works and established

108-687: The second world war, Charles Howard-Bury , who was a soldier and mountaineer, restored the house and gardens. He never married and on his death in 1963, the estate was inherited by Rex Beaumont. Rex had been Howard-Bury's friend and companion for 30 years, and sold the estate to Westmeath County Council in 1982 for £250,000. Following a multimillion-pound restoration, the house and gardens were opened to visitors. Belvedere also hosts weekend music festivals, and garden theatre performances. 53°28′37″N 7°22′05″W  /  53.477°N 7.368°W  / 53.477; -7.368 Charles Brinsley Marlay Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831 – 18 June 1912)

120-750: Was an Anglo-Irish landowner and art collector. He studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge . He had large estates in Ireland, including Belvedere House and Gardens and the Jealous Wall (both inherited from Marlay's cousin Brinsley Butler, 4th Earl of Lanesborough in 1847) and Tyrrellspass Castle (inherited from Marlay's grandmother, who was the only daughter of Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere ). He moved into Belvedere House and altered its upper façade's Diocletian windows as well as adding terracing and having plans drawn up by Ninian Niven for

132-555: Was released upon Robert's death. Robert built The Jealous Wall after falling out with his brother George, who lived on the adjacent estate at Tudenham . His wife was only released on his death in 1774. The estate passed to his son George Augustus Rochfort , the 2nd Earl. He was MP for County Westmeath from 1761 to 1776 and High Sheriff of Westmeath for 1762. He left for England in 1798 and died in 1814. When his widow died in 1828, Belvedere passed to her grandson Brinsley Butler, 4th Earl of Lanesborough. He rarely visited Belvedere and it

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144-692: Was subsequently inherited on his death by his cousin Charles Brinsley Marlay in 1847. Charles moved into the house and during his time there was responsible for the alteration of the Diocletian windows on the upper façade and for the addition of the terracing. He commissioned Ninian Niven, curator of the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, to draw up plans for the Victorian walled garden. In the period following

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