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nickkingsley.bsky.social
Historian of the country house; archivist; FSA; Chairman of Gloucestershire County History Trust; author of Landed Families blog
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The latest post on my blog concerns a family who made their money from a C19 Sheffield brewery and still hold a 1600 acre Yorkshire estate with a comfortable C18 house and a fine folly belvedere tower: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/596-...

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The latest piece on my blog concerns a Scottish family with a legal tradition and a seat on the River Tay: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/595-...

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My first blog post of 2025 concerns the families of the super-rich newspaper tycoons, the Viscounts Camrose and Kemsley, and their many houses, only one of which remains in their possession today: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/594-...

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The latest post on my blog tells the rather remarkable story of Richard McCarthy, later Berridge, the son of an Irish soldier who made a fortune in the brewing industry in London and became the largest landowner in Ireland. And who was a serial philanderer.

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The latest post on my blog follows the complex story of the junior branch of Berney family in Norfolk and their many houses: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/12/592-...

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We have battened down the hatches against Storm Darragh as far as we can. Suddenly being 300ft up overlooking the Bristol Channel feels a little precarious!

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The latest post on my blog concerns one of Norfolk's oldest families, whose self-inflicted wounds have repeatedly deprived them of country houses: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/12/591-...

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The latest post on my blog concerns a family of lawyers with an important London estate and a seat in Suffolk: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/11/590-...

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Yet another refugee from Twitter here. I hope many of those who followed my posts on British and Irish country houses there will do so here too. Every new post on my blog flagged: landedfamilies.blogspot.com

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