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Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour
Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour (31 March 1740 – 4 December 1808) was a British nobleman in the 18th century. He married Mary Christina Conquest, in 1763.
Biography,_by_George_Romney.jpg) 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.[1] They had a London home in Grosvenor Square.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] See alsoReferences
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