Marquesses of Buckingham

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The Marquesses of Buckingham were a prominent British aristocratic family whose wealth and influence peaked in the 18th and early 19th centuries, closely tied to high political office and grand country estates.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British noble title
hereditary peerage
architecturalAssociation neoclassical country house design
associatedEstate Stowe, Buckinghamshire
associatedWith Buckinghamshire
country Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom
culturalRole leading county family in Buckinghamshire
economicBase landed wealth
rents from estates
familyNameAssociated Grenville
Temple
familySeat Stowe House
firstCreationDate 1784
firstHolder George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
heldOfficeIn House of Lords
hereditarySuccession male-preference primogeniture
historicalReputation great landowners of Georgian Britain
prominent political dynasty
involvedIn British national politics
local county politics
knownFor connections to high political office
large landed estates
political influence
wealth
landscapeAssociation English landscape garden style
linkedFamilyTitle Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos
Earls Temple
memberOf British peerage system
monarchAtCreation George III of the United Kingdom
surface form: George III
namedAfter Buckingham
nobleRank marquess
notablePeriodOfInfluence 18th century
early 19th century
patronOf architecture
landscape gardening
peakInfluence early 19th century
late 18th century
peerageOf Peerage of Great Britain
politicalAffiliation Tory
Whig
regionOfInfluence Buckinghamshire
England
socialClass British aristocracy
socialStatus high nobility
sphereOfInfluence UK central government departments
surface form: British government ministries

Parliament of Great Britain
titleCreatedFor George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
surface form: George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 3rd Earl Temple

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Stowe House formerSeatOf Marquesses of Buckingham
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham titleCreated Marquesses of Buckingham
this entity surface form: Marquess of Buckingham in the Peerage of Great Britain