HINCHINGBROKE PAGEANT

Press photo, unsigned, showing full length (left to right) Lady Emily Dyke (b. 1846, née Montagu, sister of the 8th Earl of Sandwich, wife of Sir William Hart Dyke of Lullingstone Castle) in plain nun's habit as the Prioress Alice Wilton, and Lady Emily's daughter in a gorgeous Tudor dress with hat and ruff, in the background is the wall of the old Benedictine nunnery, Hinchingbroke, Huntingdon, 6th July no year but

Hinchingbroke House, on the outskirts of Huntingdon, came after the dissolution to Sir Henry Cromwell, great nephew of Henry VIII's minister Thomas, and grandfather of Oliver Cromwell, the protector. Sold in 1627 by Sir Oliver Cromwell, uncle of the Protector, to the Montagu family, it became the home of the Earls of Sandwich.

Item Date:  1912

Stock No:  52645      £40

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