Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham
Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, KB, PC (I) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 until 1728 when he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Malton.
The Watson-Wentworth and Finch families (Charles Philips, c. 1732)
Wentworth Woodhouse
Lady Mary Finch, Marchioness of Rockingham (d.1761) by Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. The building has more than 300 rooms, with 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) of floorspace, including 124,600 square feet (11,580 m2) of living area. It covers an area of more than 2.5 acres (1.0 ha), and is surrounded by a 180-acre (73 ha) park, and an estate of 15,000 acres (6,100 ha).
East front of Wentworth Woodhouse (May 2015)
Wentworth Woodhouse (east front) from A Complete History of the County of York by Thomas Allen (1828–30).
The west front; this was the original house
"Doric Lodge" in the grounds