John Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley
John Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley was an English landowner, politician, amateur artist, and patron of the arts.
Sir John Fleming Leicester as colonel of yeomanry
Georgiana, Lady Leicester, (later Lady De Tabley), portrait as "Hope"/The Branch by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Tabley House is an English country house in Tabley Inferior, some 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the west of the town of Knutsford, Cheshire. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It was built between 1761 and 1769 for Sir Peter Byrne Leicester, to replace the nearby Tabley Old Hall, and was designed by John Carr. The Tabley House Collection exists as an exhibition showcased by the University of Manchester.
South front elevation
Old Tabley Hall about 1860, with Lord de Tabley and his sisters
Tabley House from the Park by Anthony Devis c. 1770
A granddaughter of the 2nd Lord De Tabley, painter and photographer Mrs Alfred Sotheby/Barbara Leighton (1870–1952) as an infant.