3-075-016 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Canford Manor, Dorsetshire, the seat of Lord Wimborne, visited by the Prince of Wales, 1890. 'View from the south-west; Entrance Hall; View from the river; The Avenue, from the west. [Engravings from photographs by Mr. Vaughan]...Lord Wimborne's residence, on the banks of the Stour, [is] about two miles south-east of the town [of Wimborne]. We give a View of the mansion, which has been redecorated and fitted throughout with the electric light, and in the hall are some fine specimens of wood carvings in walnut, and Gobelin tapestries. The staircase, in carved walnut, is one of the handsomest in the country. There is good shooting in the Canford covers. The list of guests included the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde, Sir Edward and Lady Guinness, Sir E. Edwards, Viscount and Viscountess Curzon, Lady Romney, Lady F. Marsham, Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, Earl and Countess Yarborough, Countess Dudley, Lord and Lady Gosford, Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill, Viscount Valletort, Mr. Hervey, Lord Chelsea, Lord Clifden, Earl Shaftesbury, Lord F. Clinton Hope, and Mr. Alfred Montgomery. Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, second Baronet, of Dowlais, Glamorganshire, was created Lord Wimborne in 1880, and is married to a daughter of the sixth Duke of Marlborough'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.