Belvoir Castle
Britishnoun
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Proctor, who lived and worked at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, which was owned by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, subsequently lost both his job and home.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2019
Between 2003 and 2015, he was private secretary to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, a 16,000-acre site of farmland and woodland in Leicestershire.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2016
One was destroyed in a fire at Belvoir Castle in the 19th century, and another was sold to the National Gallery in Washington in the early 20th century.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2012
For more than 200 years the Poussin “Sacraments” hung in Belvoir Castle, the ancestral pile of the Duke of Rutland.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2011
The domestics at Belvoir Castle were left to relate this very disagreeable incident, and testify that the means required for the purification of their master's premises were of no common quality!
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
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