William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, KG, of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, was a prominent landowner.
Memorial to William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford and one of his two wives. York Minster
Inscription on the above monument to William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, describing his ancestry and succession
Thomas Watson-Wentworth
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Hon. Thomas Watson, later known as Thomas Watson-Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1723.
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford
…the 1st Earl, who became Earl of Strafford in a new creation. His vast estates, however, including Wentworth Woodhouse, passed to his younger nephew Thomas Watson, the third son of his sister Anne Wentworth, who in accordance with the bequest adopted the additional surname of Wentworth…
Memorial to Thomas Watson-Wentworth in the north choir aisle of York Minster