Fortescue/Rodgers engagement

[Michael Rhodes]

_. The engagement was announced 20 Nov 2009 between James Adrian
Fortescue (b 1978), scion of the Earls Fortescue (cr GB 1789), only
son of the Hon Seymour Fortescue (b 1942), of Chelsea, by his 1st wife
the former Julia Pilcher (now Mrs Benjimin Bonas, of Morecote,
Switzerland), and Olivia R. Rodgers, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs
Graham Rodgers, of Windsor.

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[marquess]

Is there still a family seat for the earl I noticed that there was
something mentioned in Debretts 1980 edition but nothing subsequently.
Has it been sold or have the earls become very secretive about their
address?

On 19 Nov, 21:02, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

[Nick Kingsley]

As far as I am aware, the 8th Earl, who inherited in 1993, still lives at
Ebrington Manor in Gloucestershire. Ebrington has belonged to the
Fortescues since 1456, and has been the main seat of the family since 1958,
when the 6th Earl, who was living at Ebrington, inherited the title from his
brother. The house suffered a serious fire in 1970 but was immediately
restored.

The family's former principal seat was Castle Hill in Devon. This passed on
the 5th Earl's death to his daughter, Lady Margaret Fortescue (b. 1923) and
is now occupied by her daughter and son-in-law, the Earl and Countess of
Arran.

Nick Kingsley

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[marquess]

Thanks very much for that Nick, do you know anything about the size of
the estate or of Wincombe Park, which is where the heir presumptive
lives, and therefore is likely to be the seat of the family, as the
current has 3 daus. Unless the Ebrington estate is entailed (if they
have such things these days)?

On 20 Nov, 23:34, "Nick Kingsley" <nick.kings...@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:

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[Nick Kingsley]

I believe there is still a reasonably substantial estate at Ebrington,
including land in the parishes of Ebrington and Chipping Campden, but I
don't know what it amounts to in acres.

Wincombe Park (near Shaftesbury, but actually in Wiltshire not Dorset) was
built between 1808 and 1824 for John Gordon, who reassembled an estate
originally belonging to Shaftesbury Abbey. It descended in the Gordon
family until the early 1950s, when Reginald Gordon sold it to Sir Arthur
Bryant, the historian. He in turn sold it to The Hon. Martin Fortescue in
1961/2, who owned about 400 acres in the parish (Donhead St Mary) in 1985.
See the VCH account of Donhead St Mary:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=116121