Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos was an English historian, travel writer and artist. She spent more than a quarter-century overseeing the restoration of the gardens and rebuilding of the family mansion at Wollaton Hall, now in Nottingham, inherited by her father, Francis Willoughby.
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Wollaton Hall, family seat in Nottingham of Duchess Cassandra's family, the Willoughbys
Kneller's 1713 portrait, Chandos family, believed to show Cassandra, rather than the Duke's first wife, mother of the two children in the picture.
Their Cannons House estate in Middlesex, England, seat of the Duke of Chandos
Shaw House, an estate of Cassandra and her husband, Duke James BrydgesIn their orbit 2
Writers born in the 1670s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1670 to 1735 · aged 65
Written about in
3 languages
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