Lord and Lady Orford have arranged to make a trip to New Zealand, leaving in September (says our London correspondent). They are at present at Wolterton Park, the family seat near Norwich. Wolterton was built by the first Lord Walpole, who was Ambassador to the ’ Court of Louis XV. His architect was Ripley, who was lampooned by Pope in the couplet, “ Heaven vists with a Taste the wealthy fool. And needs no rod but Ripley, with a rule.” Wolterton is a very fine place, which was described by Lady Dorothy Nevill, a daughter of the house, as “a kind of smaller Houghton.” About the middle of the nineteenth century all the treasures of the house were sold, and the place was allowed to fall into decay, but the present Lord Orford has done much to restore it.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 15
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