Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour

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Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour (31 March 1740 – 4 December 1808) was an English peer and landowner.

Biography

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Portrait of his wife, Mary (by George Romney)

Henry Arundell was born on 31 March 1740, to Henry Arundell and Mary Bellings-Arundell.

He married Mary Christina Conquest, the daughter of Benedict Conquest of Irnham Hall and Mary Ursula Markham, on 31 May 1763.<ref>Sotheby's Template:Webarchive: Catalog notes for the portrait of Mary Christina Conquest, Lady Arundell of Wardour (ca 1743-1813), by George Romney</ref> They had a London home in Grosvenor Square.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They had two daughters: Mary Christina (1764–1805), who married James Everard Arundell, 9th Baron Arundell of Wardour, and Eleanor Mary (1766–1835), who married Charles Clifford, 6th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.<ref>Arundell of Wardour, Baron (E, 1605–1944) in Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 29 December 2013.</ref>

An avid collector of art, he accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, designed in the Palladian style by Giacomo Quarenghi.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A portrait was painted of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

He died on 4 December 1808, aged 68. After his death, his trustees were forced to sell off a portion of his lands in Dorset.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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