"The Friends of the Fitzwilliam, founded in 1909, is a society supporting the museum, and the oldest such society in Britain. Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. Admission is free. The museum is the lead museum for the University of Cambridge Museums consortium, one of 16 Major Partner Museum services funded by Arts Council England to lead the development of the museums sector. The museum was founded in 1816 with the legacy of the library and art collection of"
"notable figures in British comedy. The Mumford Theatre is part of Anglia Ruskin University, and hosts shows by both student and non-student groups. There are also a number of venues within the colleges. Within the city there are several notable museums, some run by the University of Cambridge Museums consortium and others independent of it. The Fitzwilliam Museum is the city's largest, and is the lead museum of the University of Cambridge Museums. Founded in 1816 from the bequeathment and collections of Richard, Viscount FitzWilliam, the museum was originally located in the building of the Perse Grammar School in Free"
"1804 and sold to the town in 1912, and an early fire engine house from c. 1827. Notable commercial buildings include the Fitzwilliam Inn (1843) and the Fitzwilliam Market (1859). Fitzwilliam Common Historic District The Fitzwilliam Common Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the small town of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. The district covers about , and includes the town common, laid out in 1765, and the buildings arrayed around it. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Although the territory that is now Fitzwilliam was first granted in 1752, it was not settled"
"Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse The Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on the village green in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. It presently serves as Fitzwilliam Town Hall. The two story white clapboard structure was built in 1817, replacing the second meetinghouse, which stood on the same site and was destroyed by fire. It is a rectangular structure with a projecting Greek Revival temple front with four columns and a triangular pediment. A four-stage tower rises above the front facade, with a clock (given in 1861) in the first stage, and a Paul Revere bell hangs in the second stage belfry,"
"Fitzwilliam Common Historic District The Fitzwilliam Common Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the small town of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. The district covers about , and includes the town common, laid out in 1765, and the buildings arrayed around it. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Although the territory that is now Fitzwilliam was first granted in 1752, it was not settled until 1765 due to a significant number of Indian raids in the area until after the French and Indian War. Its center became the crossing point of a number of"
"the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Although small ordinary pieces can still be relatively cheap (from £100 up), the highest prices are fetched by the few pieces with paintings of local scenes around the town. A flask with a ship-building scene on Lowestoft beach fetched £24,000 in 2010, and in 2011 another piece with local scenes made the record price at £30,000. Lowestoft Porcelain Factory The Lowestoft Porcelain Factory was a soft-paste porcelain factory on Crown Street (then Bell Lane) in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, which was active from 1757 to 1802. It mostly produced ""useful wares"" such as pots, teapots, and jugs,"
"an open section with round arches on all four sides. The building was converted to entirely secular uses in 1858, at which time the gallery level was converted into a full second story. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and was included in the Fitzwilliam Common Historic District in 1997. Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse The Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on the village green in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. It presently serves as Fitzwilliam Town Hall. The two story white clapboard structure was built in 1817, replacing the second meetinghouse, which stood"
"title ""Fitzwilliam Museum"". Disney presented most of the sculptures in his collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 1850. In 1851 he endowed with £1,000 the Disney Professorship of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. The first holder was John Howard Marsden, nominated by Disney. In 1857 an additional £3,500 left by Disney went to support the Professorship. What remained of the collection at The Hyde was sold by Christie's auction house in the years after Edgar Disney, the heir, died in 1881. The Fitzwilliam Museum acquired some of the pieces. Disney was married to Sophia Disney-Ffytche, daughter of Lewis"
"the 1960s to Richard Neame who sold the house to a monastic community in 1976. It was subsequently sold c.1982 to Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, then wife of Somerset de Chair, MP and now of Christopher Tadgell. The house is home to the Fitzwilliam Collection, a notable private art collection that Lady Juliet has inherited as a descendant of the Earls Fitzwilliam. The collection was formerly housed at Wentworth Woodhouse, the Fitzwilliam's traditional country seat in South Yorkshire. The collection is not on public display and pieces are rarely loaned to public collections. Among the collection are portraits by Anthony Van"
"Rubens, Van Dyck, van Goyen, Frans Hals, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso and a fine collection of 20th-century art; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints. Among the notable works in the antiquities collection is a bas-relief from Persepolis. There is also the largest collection of 16th-century Elizabethan virginal manuscript music written by some of the most notable composers of the time, such as William Byrd, Doctor John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tallis. The Egyptian Galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum reopened in 2006 after a two-year, £1.5 million programme of refurbishment, conservation and research. The museum"
"Since Fitzwilliam began operating at its current site in the north-west of Cambridge, it has grown steadily and developed into one of the University's larger, more cosmopolitan colleges. Built around a regency manor house, the college has grown by one or two buildings each decade and now consists of five interconnected courts, enclosing large, rectangular gardens. In contrast to most of the University, and indeed the regency estate at the college's centre, the majority of the buildings are of modern design. The first two courts and the central building (comprising, among other things, the old library, the dining hall, the"
"from consumption, he died at 9 Grove Place, Brompton, London, 19 January 1857, aged 33, and was buried (27 January) in Kensal Green cemetery. Edward Francis Fitzwilliam Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (1824– 20 January 1857, aged 32) was an English composer and music director. Fitzwilliam, born at Deal, Kent on 2 August 1824, was the son of Edward Fitzwilliam, an actor, by his wife, Fanny Elizabeth Fitzwilliam, actress. He was educated at the Pimlico Grammar School, at St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, Hertfordshire, and at the institution of ""L'Abbé Haffrénique"" at Boulogne. Sir Henry Bishop was his instructor in an elementary"
"hand-made sketch books in Coldham Hall’s large attic. Once they had settled in Norfolk, he directed most of his energy towards his family and the restoration of their house but Stanley continued to be passionate about art history. They would often go on trips to London museums and galleries and to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. A favourite museum was the V&A and he entered into a lively correspondence with the museum curators. Stanley was naturally fastidious, obsessive, a perfectionist. Everything had to be just so, in its rightful place. He particularly liked the works of – Kyffin Williams and"
"William Fitzwilliam (died 1559) Sir William FitzWilliam (1506 – 3 October 1559), of Windsor, Berkshire, was an Irish courtier and Member of Parliament in England. He was Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Edward VI of England; Deputy Chancellor of Ireland; Lieutenant of Windsor Castle; Keeper of Windsor Great Park and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. He was the second son of Thomas Fitzwilliam (1465-1517), of Baggotrath Castle, Co. Dublin; Sheriff of Dublin City. His mother, Eleanor, was the daughter of Sir John Dowdall, of Newtown, Co. Kildare, and co-heir to her mother, Margaret, daughter of Sir Jenico d'Artois of"
"served as a new seat by the 5th Viscount Fitzwilliam on the hill at Mount Merrion. The Fitzwilliam family left for England around 1726. Although the family no longer lived in Mount Merrion House, they retained possession of it, and rented the house out. The next Fitzwilliam to take a major interest in Mount Merrion was Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam, who remained a bachelor all his life. It was he who willed £100,000 to build the Founders Museum in Cambridge, his former university. Prior to his death in 1816, he bequeathed his vast estates to his cousin, the 11th"
"A SMALL STAR IN THE EAST """"This woman, like the last, was wofully shabby, and was degenerating to the Bosjesman complexion. But her figure, and the ghost of a certain vivacity about her, and the spectre of a dimple in her cheek, carried my memory strangely back to the old days of the Adelphi Theatre, London, when Mrs. Fitzwilliam was the friend of Victorine. """" Fanny Fitzwilliam Frances ""Fanny"" Elizabeth Fitzwilliam (""née"" Copeland) (26 July 1801 – 11 September 1854) was a British actor. She was the actress daughter of Robert Copeland, manager of the Dover theatrical circuit. As ""Miss"
"Fitzwilliam. John Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam John Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam MP (circa 1685 – 28 August 1728) of Milton, near Peterborough was an English peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1728. The peerage was in the Peerage of Ireland. Fitzwilliam was the only surviving son of William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl Fitzwilliam and his wife Anne Cremer, daughter of Edmund Cremer of West Winch, Norfolk. He was elected Member of Parliament for Peterborough at the 1710 general election and retained the seat in 1713. He was returned unopposed at the 1715 general election."
"William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, PC (30 May 1748 – 8 February 1833), styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a British Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited the estates of his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, making him one of the richest people in Britain. He played a leading part in Whig politics until the 1820s. Fitzwilliam was the son of William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam, by his wife Lady Anne, daughter of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham. Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess"
"them...it is the opinion of everybody, that I had better quit the place immediately"". After spending time around France and briefly in Switzerland he returned to England in early 1766, not leaving to continue his grand tour until December. In May 1767 he was in Italy, writing not long after he arrived in Genoa that ""I like this place beyond expression"". Between the summers of 1767 and 1768 he saw paintings in Verona, the regatta in Venice and the galleries in Padua, Bologna and Florence. Fitzwilliam's taste in paintings was guided by Sir Horace Mann in Florence and William Hamilton"
"John Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam John Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam MP (circa 1685 – 28 August 1728) of Milton, near Peterborough was an English peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1728. The peerage was in the Peerage of Ireland. Fitzwilliam was the only surviving son of William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl Fitzwilliam and his wife Anne Cremer, daughter of Edmund Cremer of West Winch, Norfolk. He was elected Member of Parliament for Peterborough at the 1710 general election and retained the seat in 1713. He was returned unopposed at the 1715 general election. On"
"Tim Knox Timothy Aidan John Knox, (born 9 August 1962) is a British art historian and museum director. Since March 2018, he has been Director of the Royal Collection, the private art collection of the British Royal Family. From 2013 to 2018, he was the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge. He was educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, and took a BA at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1989 he was appointed Assistant Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection. In 1995 he joined the National Trust as its Architectural Historian and"
"Church of England, and in 1818 a priest. Also in 1818 he proceeded to the degree of MA and in 1828 was appointed Master of Pembroke College, later the same year becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge for the year. In 1829 the University made him a Doctor of Divinity. He was again Vice-Chancellor in 1836 and remained Master of Pembroke until his death in 1870. In 1837 Ainslie laid the foundation stone of the Fitzwilliam Museum. In 1829 he married Emily, a daughter of William Coxhead Marsh, of Park Hall, Theydon Garnon, Essex. Their third son Aymer Ainslie"
"the oldest continuously functioning cinemas in the country; it is equipped with digital technology and satellite receiving equipment to allow the live screening of plays, operas and ballet from the National Theatre, Royal Opera House and other venues. The town is the site of the Cumberland Pencil Museum. One of the exhibits is what is claimed to be the world's largest coloured pencil. Fitz Park, on the bank of the River Greta, is home to the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, a Victorian museum which features the Musical Stones of Skiddaw, Southey manuscripts, and a collection of sculptures and paintings"
"his nephew. He was married to the illuminator and designer Florence Kate Kingsford, who in 1916 was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. They had three children, among them the inventor Christopher Cockerell. Sydney Cockerell Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (16 July 1867 – 1 May 1962) was an English museum curator and collector. From 1908 to 1937 he was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in Britain. Sydney Cockerell made his way initially as clerk in the family coal business, George J. Cockerell & Co, until he met John Ruskin. Around 1887, Cockerell sent Ruskin some sea shells, which he collected. At"
"at Richmond Lodge, Putney, a month before her planned wedding to Buckstone. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, three days after her death. Fanny had two children from her marriage to Edward – a son, musical composer Edward Francis Fitzwilliam and a daughter, actress and singer Kathleen Fitzwilliam. Fanny Fitzwilliam was remembered by Charles Dickens, in his The Uncommercial Traveller, for her part as Elise in Buckstone's Victorine at the Adelphi Theatre. This is not surprising as Dickens enjoyed the theatre and was a close friend of John Buckstone, her ""partner"". Excerpt from The Uncommercial Traveller CHAPTER XXXII –"
"The Rockingham Mausoleum The Rockingham Mausoleum, Wentworth, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England was commissioned in 1783 by William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam when he inherited the estates of his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham who died without a direct male heir in 1782. The architect was John Carr of York, who had already built the stable block at Wentworth Woodhouse for Lord Rockingham himself. Carr was to do a great deal of work for Lord Fitzwilliam, notably alterations to the side pavilions and to the west elevation of Wentworth Woodhouse. He submitted a number of options for the"
"Thomas Fitzwilliam Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam (died 4 March 1497) was Speaker of the House of Commons of England in 1489–1490. He was born into a Lincolnshire gentry family, the son of Thomas Fitzwilliam of Mablethorpe and educated at the Inner Temple. He was appointed Recorder of Lincoln and elected MP for Lincoln in 1459. In 1467 he was returned as MP for Plympton Earle, then a seat under the control of the Crown. In 1478 he was appointed a serjeant-at-law for the Duchy of Lancaster. After obtaining a house in Stepney, he was elected a Recorder of London and supported"
"Fitzwilliam Quartet The Fitzwilliam Quartet (FSQ) is a string quartet currently consisting of Alan George, viola; Sally Pendlebury, violoncello; and Lucy Russell and Marcus Barcham Stevens, violins. Founded in 1968 by four Cambridge undergraduates, the Fitzwilliam Quartet was one of the first of a long line of quartets to have emerged under the guidance of Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music. They became well known through their close personal association with Dmitri Shostakovich, who befriended them following a visit to York to hear them play. He entrusted them with the Western premières of his last three quartets, and"
"Edward Francis Fitzwilliam Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (1824– 20 January 1857, aged 32) was an English composer and music director. Fitzwilliam, born at Deal, Kent on 2 August 1824, was the son of Edward Fitzwilliam, an actor, by his wife, Fanny Elizabeth Fitzwilliam, actress. He was educated at the Pimlico Grammar School, at St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, Hertfordshire, and at the institution of ""L'Abbé Haffrénique"" at Boulogne. Sir Henry Bishop was his instructor in an elementary course of harmony, and for a few months he resided with John Barnett at Cheltenham studying instrumentation. In his twenty-first year he composed a"
"of the University of Sydney excavations at Pella, Jordan from 1982 to 1989. He worked at Lehman Brothers in New York from 1990 to 1994 following which became director of the National Gallery of Victoria (1994–1998). In conjunction with his directorship at the National Gallery of Victoria, Timothy was Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University, and a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He was the Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas from 1998 to 2007 and the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England from 2007 to 2012. Dr. Potts is a specialist"
"Cemetery at Eastbourne, Sussex. The Wentworths' second son, Fitzwilliam, died in Sydney on 8 August 1915 and following a service at St Michael's Church, Vaucluse, he was buried in the mausoleum. The vault was then permanently sealed. On 14 October 1927 the Church of England Property Trust, Diocese of Sydney, executed a deed of covenant to administer the mausoleum. In 1997 the Historic Houses Trust (now Sydney Living Museums), with the approval of the Wentworth family, leased the mausoleum from the Anglican Church Property Trust for 99 years and is responsible for its conservation and maintenance. Although now separated from"
"Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Ireland, and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Great Britain, (4 May 1786 – 4 October 1857) was a British nobleman and politician. He was President three times of the Royal Statistical Society in 1838–1840, 1847–1849, and 1853–1855; and President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in its inaugural year (1831–2). He was born the only son of William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam and his first wife, Lady Charlotte Ponsonby. He was a pupil at Eton College from 1796 to"
"teaches traditional vellum manuscript illumination, heraldry and calligraphy in Britain and in libraries around the world and is the author of several books across a range of manuscript skills. Lovett is the co-founder of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Collection of Contemporary Calligraphy at the University of Cambridge and curated the museum’s 2012/13 exhibition of contemporary calligraphy from around the world, ""Calligraphy Today"". She is the current chair of the Heritage Crafts Association, a position she has held since 2017 having previously been the founder vice-chair. She is a judge for the National Schools Handwriting Competition and champions handwriting along with other"