Identifier: seriesofpictures04morr (find matches)
Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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thus memorialisingscience, literature, and art. The desire to do this is apparent throughout the edificeand grounds, and forms, indeed, the great and distinguishing characteristic of theplace.^^ The gardens and pleasure grounds are extensive, and are tastefully and lavishlymaintained, deserving even more than in the olden time the high encomium ofFuller, who wrote that this place ^^well deserved the name of Summerley, because itwas always summer there, the walks and gardens being planted with perpetualgreens. Mr. John Crossley married Martha Turner, and was father of Francis Crossley, Esq., born October 26th., 1817, M.P. for Halifax from 1852 to 1859, and for the Northern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1859 till his death, January 2nd., 1872. He was created a Baronet, January 3rd., 1863. He had married, October 11th., 1845, Martha Eliza, daughter of Henry Brinton, Esq., of Kidderminster, and had an only son, Sir Savilb Brinton Crossley, Baronet, born June 14th., 1857.
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UNDERLET HALL, NEAR KTRKBY LONSDALE, WESTMORELAND. EARL OF BECTIVE. Underley Hall is situate in immediate proximity to the market town of KirkbyLonsdale, in Westmoreland. The existing mansion was erected by Alexander Nowell,Esq., in the year 1825, and was completed at a cost of about £30,000. The Underley estates were purchased by Alderman Thompson in the year 1842,and his grandson, Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, M.P. for Westmoreland, becametheir possessor. The house is of yellow freestone, and contains many very elegant apartments.In the year 1872 very extensive improvements and additions were commenced bythe then owner. The principal additions include a tower one hundred feet high,and the whole of the mansion from the two windows south of the tower is entirelynew. At the east front is a ball-room, in immediate communication with which amagnificent conservatory was constructed, the base of the front being of stoneto the height of five feet, surmounted by a globular roof composed

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