3-008-335 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"My Lady's Chair", at Corby Castle, formerly belonging to the Countess of Derwentwater, 1862. Engraving of '...an old oak chair preserved in the "Ratcliffe Room" of Corby Castle, the seat of H. P. Howard, Esq., which tradition affirms to have belonged to the beautiful Countess of Derwentwater. This lady was the wife of James Ratcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater, an English nobleman who was implicated in the rebellion of 1715 with Lords Kenmure, Nithsdale, Carnwath, and Wintown, and who suffered death on Tower Hill the 24th of February, 1716'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.