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Kirby Hall, the Glossary

Kirby Hall is a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house, located near Gretton, Northamptonshire, England.^[1]

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English Heritage sites in Northamptonshire
Gardens in Northamptonshire
Grade I listed buildings in Northamptonshire
Historic house museums in Northamptonshire
Scheduled monuments in Northamptonshire
Tourist attractions in Northamptonshire

A Christmas Carol (1999 film)

A Christmas Carol is a 1999 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol that was first televised December 5, 1999, on TNT.

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Anne Finch, Countess of Nottingham

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham (October 1668 – 26 September 1743), formerly Anne Hatton, was the second wife of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and the mother of Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham.

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Anne of Denmark

Anne of Denmark (12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I. She was Queen of Scotland from their marriage on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until her death in 1619.

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Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme broadcast by the BBC in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people (generally speaking).

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Blatherwick

Blatherwick is a surname.

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Christopher Hatton

Sir Christopher Hatton KG (12 December 1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England.

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Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton

Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton (1632–1706) was an English aristocrat and diplomat.

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Civilisation (TV series)

Civilisation—in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark—is a 1969 British television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Kenneth Clark.

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Classical architecture

Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.

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Corby

Corby is a town and civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire, England, north-east of Northampton. Kirby Hall and Corby are north Northamptonshire.

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Cutwork

Cutwork or cut work, also known as in Italian, is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile, typically cotton or linen, are cut away and the resulting "hole" is reinforced and filled with embroidery or needle lace.

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Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea PC (2 July 16471 January 1730) was an English Tory politician and peer who supported the Hanoverian Succession in 1714.

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David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield

David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, 7th Viscount of Stormont, (9 October 1727 – 1 September 1796) known as the (7th) Viscount of Stormont from 1748 to 1793, was a British diplomat and politician.

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Denys Finch Hatton

Denys George Finch-Hatton MC (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen von Blixen (also known by her pen name, Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937.

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Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London, England.

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Earl of Winchilsea

Earl of Winchilsea is a title in the Peerage of England.

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Eastwell Park

Eastwell Park is a large area of parkland and a country estate in the civil parish of Eastwell, adjoining Ashford, Kent, in England.

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Edward Finch (diplomat)

Edward Finch-Hatton (c.1697 – 16 May 1771) of Kirby Hall, near Rockingham, Northamptonshire, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 41 years from 1727 to 1768.

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Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden

Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden (13 September 1588 – 8 September 1661) was an English peer.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox

Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox (157930 July 1624), KG, 7th Seigneur d'Aubigny, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a Scottish nobleman and through their paternal lines was a second cousin of King James VI of Scotland and I of England.

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George Finch-Hatton (MP for Rochester)

George Finch-Hatton Esq FRS (30 June 1747 – 17 February 1823) was an English aristocrat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1772 to 1784.

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George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea

George William Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, 5th Earl of Nottingham (19 May 1791 – 8 January 1858) was an English peer and politician known for duelling with the then Prime Minister, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1829.

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Giant order

In classical architecture, a giant order, also known as colossal order, is an order whose columns or pilasters span two (or more) storeys.

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Great Harrowden

Great Harrowden is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, with a population (including Hardwick) at the 2011 census of 161. Kirby Hall and Great Harrowden are north Northamptonshire.

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Gretton, Northamptonshire

Gretton is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire. Kirby Hall and Gretton, Northamptonshire are north Northamptonshire.

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Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea

Henry Stormont Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea and 8th Earl of Nottingham (3 November 1852 – 14 August 1927) was an English peer.

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Holdenby

Holdenby is an English village and civil parish about north-west of Northampton in West Northamptonshire.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Gerard (Jesuit)

John Gerard (4 October 1564 – 27 July 1637) was a priest of the Society of Jesus who operated a secret ministry of the underground Catholic Church in England during the Elizabethan era. He was born into the English nobility as the second son of Sir Thomas Gerard at Old Bryn Hall, near Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire.

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Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster.

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Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton

Lady Elizabeth Mary Finch-Hatton (née Lady Elizabeth Mary Murray; 18 May 1760 – 1 June 1825) was a British aristocrat and the subject of a notable painting, once thought to be by Johann Zoffany, now attributed to David Martin.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Mansfield Park (1999 film)

Mansfield Park is a 1999 British romantic comedy-drama film based on Jane Austen's 1814 novel of the same name, written and directed by Patricia Rozema.

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Mary Anne Everett Green

Mary Anne Everett Green (Wood; 19 July 1818 – 1 November 1895) was an English historian and archival editor.

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Michael Hodgetts

Michael William Hodgetts (29 March 1936 – 12 December 2022) was an English Catholic historian who became a leading expert on priest holes and on Harvington Hall.

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Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea

Murray Edward Gordon Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea and 7th Earl of Nottingham (28 March 1851 – 7 September 1898), styled the Hon.

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Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard (– 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.

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Patricia Rozema

Patricia Rozema (born 20 August 1958) is a Canadian film director, writer and producer.

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Privy Council of England

The Privy Council of England, also known as His (or Her) Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, was a body of advisers to the sovereign of the Kingdom of England.

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Prodigy house

Prodigy houses are large and showy English country houses built by courtiers and other wealthy families, either "noble palaces of an awesome scale" or "proud, ambitious heaps" according to taste.

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Recusancy

Recusancy (from translation) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.

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Rockingham Castle

Rockingham Castle is a former royal castle and hunting lodge in Rockingham Forest, approximately two miles north from the town centre of Corby, Northamptonshire, England. Kirby Hall and Rockingham Castle are country houses in Northamptonshire, Gardens in Northamptonshire, Grade I listed buildings in Northamptonshire and historic house museums in Northamptonshire.

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Royal entry

The ceremonies and festivities accompanying a formal entry by a ruler or his/her representative into a city in the Middle Ages and early modern period in Europe were known as the royal entry, triumphal entry, or Joyous Entry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_Hall

Also known as Kirby Old Hall, Kirby, Northamptonshire.

Kirby Hall, the Glossary

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See also

English Heritage sites in Northamptonshire

Gardens in Northamptonshire

Grade I listed buildings in Northamptonshire

Historic house museums in Northamptonshire

Scheduled monuments in Northamptonshire

Tourist attractions in Northamptonshire

References