MOUNT STEWART NORTHERN IRELAND may not be as rich in the number of great houses as, say, Yorkshire, but many of the ones it does possess are quite incomparable in their beauty and setting. Mount Stewart, home of the Londonderrys, as well as fulfilling both...
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MOUNT STEWART NORTHERN IRELAND may not be as rich in the number of great houses as, say, Yorkshire, but many of the ones it does possess are quite incomparable in their beauty and setting. Mount Stewart, home of the Londonderrys, as well as fulfilling both these points, also containsone of the most beautiful gardens in Ireland. Since being laid out in the 1920s by the M a r c h i o n e s s o f Londonderry of the day, they have been known to garden-lovers all over the world. The remarkable family who have lived in Mount Stewart for almost 250 years have produced many famous figures of whom the leading one was probably the second Marquess, better known as Viscount Castlereagh. He c r o w n e d a h i g h l y successful career by his statesmanship at the Congress of Vienna in 1814, when he was Foreign Secretary. One of the leading politicians of the age, his firmness and e n e r g y w e r e p a r t l y responsible for ending the war with France, and s a v i n g E u r o p e f r o m complete
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