Tatton Hall Upper Landing
Introduction
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Tatton Hall Upper Landing
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 15 May 2014
Around the walls of the gallery, are full-length portraits of the "Ten Cheshire Gentlemen" who were the leading local gentry at the time of the first Jacobite rebellion in 1715. They met together at Ashley Hall to decide whether to support King George I or James Stuart. They decided to support the king, which probably saved their lives and their estates. They commissioned the portraits to commemorate the meeting. Unusually for rooms at Tatton Hall none of the paintings are of Egertons, the family did not achieve such importance until the nineteenth century. The paintings originally hung at Ashley hall; they were brought to Tatton when William Tatton Egerton bought the Ashley estate in 1860.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.330332
Longitude
-2.384652