3-043-797 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Coming of age of the Marquis of Stafford: festivities at Trentham Hall, 1872. 'The birthday festivities at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, on Monday and Tuesday week, in honour of the Marquis of Stafford, eldest surviving son of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland...This young nobleman, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, who had completed the twenty-first year of his age on the Saturday before, is heir to the titles of Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, and Baron Gower, in the English Peerage, and to those of Earl of Sutherland and Baron Strathnaven in the Peerage of Scotland...The house, situated three miles from Newcastle-under-Lyne, in a beautiful park with a lake formed by the river Trent, is a stately and elegant Italian building...The subject...of our Illustration is the rustic sports in the park; running races, climbing poles, a tea-feast for the school children, and a performance of Punch and Judy. The distinguished visitors at Trentham Hall seemed to watch these proceedings with much amusement'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.