Book 2010

Inheritance

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Language: English
Published: 2010

Genealogy
Aristocracy (Social class)
Knole (Sevenoaks, England)
Biography
History
Great britain, biography
Great britain, genealogy

A fascinating memoir of an extraordinary family told through the vast, four-hundred-year-old house, Knole. Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirten generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles.