360 The Fifty-third General Meeting. 



down. His portrait, and that of his wife, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 

 are in the Ante-Room ; others of himself and his horses, by Morier, 

 in the Billiard-Room ; and his collection of pictures of horses in 

 all the attitudes of the " Haute Ecole " are in the Lunging Room. 

 This Earl entertained George III. hi 1778, when His Majesty held 

 a review of the army on Camp Hill. He died in 1794, and was 

 succeeded by his son, George Augustus, eleventh Earl. It was 

 during the lifetime of this Earl that James Wyatt was employed 

 in rebuilding the house. He built the Cloisters and present 

 Entrance .Hall, and also the Library, but unfortunately was allowed, 

 in order to carry out his plans, to pull down most of the north 

 and west sides of the house. The whole of the gardens were 

 re-arranged and laid out about the saire time under the personal 

 supervision of Lady Pembroke, a daughter of Count Woronzow, 

 the then Russian Ambassador to London. It was about this time, 

 also, that Inigo Jones's Arch, with the lead statue of Marcus 

 Aurelius on the top, was moved to its present position from the 

 former site on the top of the hill in the park. 



I must apologise for having given you perhaps too much family 

 history, but I found that the chronology of the objects of interest 

 in the house, and grounds, was so much more easily marked out 

 by taking the Earls of Pembroke in their succession than by any 

 other plan, that I have risked the possible charge of talking too 

 much about my own ancestors, in order to give you information 

 according to dates. 



