The original owner and builder of Burghley House was Sir William Cecil (later the 1st Lord Burghley), who constructed the mansion between 1555 and 1587. As the principal advisor and Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, Cecil built the house to demonstrate his wealth and power.
Burghley is still very much a lived in family home. Having been built by William Cecil 500 years ago, direct descendants have lived in the House ever since and it is currently home to Miranda Rock and her family.
Miranda works for the Burghley House Preservation Trust and oversees the running of the Estate, the opening of the house to visitors and the numerous events that take place throughout the year. Miranda is a Trustee and Patron of numerous local charities in the Stamford area.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598), was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572.
Miranda Rock, granddaughter of the 6th Marquess of Exeter, lives at Burghley House with her husband, Orlando, and their four children, managing the estate on behalf of the Burghley House Preservation Trust, while the current (8th) Marquess of Exeter lives in Canada. The house remains a family home for descendants of William Cecil, with Miranda overseeing its operations and preservation as House Director.
So they remained until the Armada year of 1588, when Dudley's last great triumph was stage-managing Elizabeth's famous visit to the army camp at Tilbury. Less than a month later, worn out and probably suffering from stomach cancer, Dudley died at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire, aged about 55.
Due to his ill-health, at age sixteen he was sent to South Africa by his family in the hopes the climate might improve his health. At eighteen, he entered the diamond trade at Kimberley in 1871 and with funding from Rothschild & Co, began to systematically buy out and consolidate diamond mines.
Although often a difficult illness to treat in later stages, Miranda described her Lyme diagnosis as somewhat of a relief. Feeling misunderstood and misjudged had been some of the hardest aspects of her illness to manage.
On March 13, 1963, Ernesto Miranda was arrested by the police on circumstantial evidence in the kidnapping and rape of an 18-year-old woman. Questioned by the police, Miranda signed a confession.
Miranda House pioneered science education for women at the University of Delhi when it started its B.Sc. Honours (Botany) course in 1948. Science teaching was conducted in the university and in 1963–64, B.Sc. General and in 1971, B.Sc.
William Cecil built Burghley House as a country home for the dynasty that he founded and as a demonstration of his wealth and power. Externally, it is largely as he left it. Within it has been transformed by his descendants and filled with an extraordinary Collection of wonderful things.
The Parkland is open year round. Planned Closures | The House, Gardens and Adventure Play are closed for the duration of the Defender Burghley Horse Trials 3 to 6 September 2026. Burghley House, Gardens and Adventure Play close for essential upkeep, maintenance and conservation during winter months.
Rhodes is the lofty and worshipful patriot and statesman that multitudes believe him to be, or Satan come again, as the rest of the world account him, he is still the most imposing figure in the British empire outside of England. When he stands on the Cape of Good Hope, his shadow falls to the Zambesi.
Evidence is presented that, contrary to popu- lar tradition, Cecil Rhodes never suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, and that the illness which finally killed him was due to congenital cardiac disease, most probably an atrial septal defect.
CECIL RHODES LEFT ABOUT $25,000,000; He Bequeathed More Than $5,000,000 to His Executors. Trustees Have Plenary Power -- American Committee to Act in Conjunction with English Body.
While foreign negotiations continued, Elizabeth enjoyed the attention of young male courtiers like Thomas Heneage, Christopher Hatton and Walter Raleigh, and later Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, all of whom flirted their way into the queen's favour. But Robert Dudley remained the queen's first, and probably only love.
In 1553, Robert, like his father and brothers, was involved in the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne, following the death of King Edward, instead of the rightful heir, Edward's half sister, Mary. The coup failed, and Robert, along with the others, was found guilty of treason.
Today this role is still sought after and Marshall Harber have placed many successful lady's maids. The role can encompass so much more, for example a lady's maid can take care of the male and female wardrobes of the house.
Hugh "Shrimpie" MacClare, a Marquess of Flintshire, known as Laird of Duneagle, is a minister with the Foreign Office, who has some dealings with the Turkish Embassy. His ex-wife, Susan MacClare, is a niece of Violet, The Dowager Countess of Grantham and a first cousin of Robert's.
