3-028-510 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Burghley House, near Stamford, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, 1871. 'The festivities of Wednesday and Thursday week, at Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, upon the occasion of his eldest son and heir, Lord Burghley, coming of age, were of more than local interest. This noble family is the elder branch of the lineage of that famous Elizabethan statesman Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, or Burleigh, whose younger son, Sir Robert Cecil, also the chief Minister, after his father, of Queen Elizabeth, and of James I. after her reign, is the founder of the Hatfield branch, that of the present Marquis of Salisbury...The stately mansion...is a fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture...Our Engraving presents a view of the grand old house, with the spacious marquee erected on the lawn for the dinner, at which 700 guests sat down last week...the municipal corporation sent an address to Burghley House congratulating the Marquis and his family upon this occasion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.