John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates.
Bookplate from Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical (1893)
A sister & niece. Maggie & Alcy Stepney Cowell.
A Niece. The painter and photographer Barbara Sotheby (d.1952) in 1888. Daughter of his sister Eleanor Leighton. On 28 September 1909 she married Alfred (d. 9 October 1949), younger son of Admiral Sir Edward Southwell Sotheby. Her portrait of her uncle, in coloured chalk, and a portrait of Paul, the porter, belong to the Tabley House Collection.
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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.