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...In 1902, William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, sixth Earl Fitzwilliam, died. He left a legacy worth more than £3bn in today’s money....
...It is the former seat of Robert Menzies, the founder of the modern Liberal party and Australia’s longest serving prime minister....
...John Healey, shadow defence secretary and the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, which includes Liberty’s Rotherham site, said “the order book is still healthy [at Rotherham] . . . as long as the foundation financing...
...They often are left in private hands or — like Wentworth — taken over in last-ditch rescue bids....
...Wentworth Woodhouse amalgamated them. It was Yorkshire’s equivalent to Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the magnificent seat of the Whig prime minister Robert Walpole....
...Mr Hammond recently met John Healey, the local Labour MP, and Robert Jenrick, MP for Newark, to talk about the house....
...Robert Jenrick, the Conservative MP and heritage specialist, said Mr Rees-Mogg had “played no part in our lobbying of the chancellor”....
...“It’ll be a graveyard,” said another member, Robert White-Cooper, who has lived in Wentworth for almost 20 years....
...Golf is succumbing to the phenomenon identified by Robert Putnam, the US political scientist, 20 years ago in Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital....
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...And I thank Robert Chote and his team for their hard work. Today’s OBR forecast is for growth to be 2.1% in 2016; higher than forecast in March....
...Its crop of British prime ministers, for example, includes the first, Robert Walpole, the latest, David Cameron, and, in Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, possibly the next....
...Twilight star Robert Pattinson toured the three-bedroom penthouse last November but couldn’t be tempted; following a recent £3m price drop it is still on the market for $19.5m....
...“From that genesis”, wrote Robert Green, his biographer, “he developed a short game that was never bettered.”...
...Not since the media tycoon Robert Maxwell disappeared from his yacht off the Canaries 22 years ago has the death of a controversial, politically connected businessman provoked such intrigue....
...“Everyone says they want Caine or Connery, and Alan disabuses you of that notion very quickly,” Robert Campbell, former creative director of McCann Erickson, told Campaign....
...Trenton Airport is about 18km away, and it’s an hour’s drive from Ski Wentworth, host of the 2011 Canada Games....
...Richard Wentworth, professor of sculpture at London’s Royal College of Art, believes that Cage’s importance exceeds even that of more obviously central figures such as Joseph Beuys....
...Richard Wentworth, sculptor. Tom Williams, executive vice-president of programmes, Airbus SAS. Roger Wilson, founder, Sarcoma UK charity. OFFICER, OBE Gerald Balding, for services to horseracing....
...Contemporary artists as diverse as Rachel Whiteread, Jenny Holzer and Richard Wentworth have named her as an influence. Bourgeois was still working at the time of her death....
...One in this show is his picture of Thomas Wentworth dictating to his secretary in around 1640....
...Paul Wentworth Engel, an architectural designer and preservationist, will be guiding visitors through the former home of Edward and Mary Harkness, which includes perfectly preserved French and Italian Renaissance...
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...I’d also buy Robert Kaplow’s Me and Orson Welles (Vintage), a charming coming-of-age novel set in New York theatreland in the 1930s....
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