258 WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE, YORKS. 



FIG. 177. Houghton. Sir Robert Walpole's Dressing-Room. 



Fitzwilliam, which must not be confused with Wentworth Castle, 

 near Barnsley, a smaller house, but still a fine one, built by 

 Thomas, Earl of Strafford, in 1730. Wentworth Woodhouse 

 was designed in the year 1740 by Henry Flitcroft for Thomas, 

 Earl of Malton, who succeeded some six years later to the 

 barony of Rockingham, and was thereupon created Marquis of 

 Rockingham. His biographer 1 says that he " rebuilt the ancient 

 family seat, now called Wentworth House, in a very elegant 

 manner, where he died on I4th December 1750." His eldest 



1 Collins's "Peerage." 



