Lissan House
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Lissan House is a historic house and tourist attraction in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that was the seat of the Staples baronets. Lissan lies nestled at the foot of the Sperrin Mountains amid anc
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Rubbing of the Brass tomb plate of Alexander Staples of Yate Court (d. 1590). He is shown with his two wives and eleven children. His youngest son was Sir Thomas Staples, 1st Baronet Lissan & Faughanvale (d.1653)
John Staples (1736–1820) by Pompeo Batoni
The White Bridge
Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, 12th Baronet was an artist, also remembered for his eccentricity.
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…decline. By 1911, James Head Staples' health had declined to such an extent that he was no longer able to run the Estate. His eccentric younger brother, Robert Ponsonby Staples thus settled at Lissan in November 1912. Robert Ponsonby Staples was an exceptionally talented artist. He had gone to Leuven to study architecture at…
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Ada Louise Stammers, the artist's wife (Robert Ponsonby Staples)