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=== 1650 to 1900 === After the death of Arthur the younger's eldest son, Thomas, in 1660, Temple Newsam was inherited by Arthur's second son, [[Henry Ingram, 1st Viscount of Irvine]] (created a [[peer of Scotland]] as Baron Ingram and [[Viscount of Irvine]] in 1661 β although the family used the English form "Irwin").<ref name=":13">{{cite book|title=Temple Newsam House|publisher=The Libraries & Arts Committee of the Leeds Corporation|year=1951|page=28}}</ref> In 1661, Henry married Lady Essex Montagu, daughter of [[Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester]], a favourite of [[Charles II of England|Charles II]].<ref name=":13" /> The estate then passed through Henry's two sons and five grandsons, the last being [[Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount of Irvine]].<ref name=":13" /> The 4th Viscount brought back paintings from his [[Grand Tour]] of 1704β07.<ref name=":23">{{cite web|last=Holroyd|first=Julie|date=18 June 2020|title=Behind the Picture Gallery at Temple Newsam|url=https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/collections/behind-the-picture-gallery-at-temple-newsam/|access-date=6 November 2021|website=museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk}}</ref> Extant receipts from 1692 show women as well as men were employed to work the estate in haymaking.<ref name=":21">{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Steve|title=Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam|publisher=Pen & Sword|year=2017|pages=87β88}}</ref> In 1712, [[William Etty (architect)|William Etty]] designed a new approach to the house, with a bridge and ponds.<ref name=":16" /><ref>{{cite book|title=Temple Newsam House|publisher=The Libraries & Arts Committee of the Leeds Corporation|year=1951|pages=46}}</ref> In 1714, Temple Newsam was inherited by [[Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine]], and his wife [[Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irvine|Anne]] who spent a vast fortune furnishing the house and creating the East Avenue.<ref name=":23" /> Between 1738 and 1746, [[Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount of Irvine]] remodelled the west and north wings of the house, creating new bedrooms and dressing rooms and the picture gallery.<ref name=":14" /> A painting in [[Leeds Art Gallery]] by [[Philippe Mercier]] of {{circa|1745}} shows Henry and his wife standing in front of Temple Newsam House.<ref>{{cite web|title=Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount Irwin (1691β1761), and His Wife Anne (c.1699β1766)|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/henry-ingram-7th-viscount-irwin-16911761-and-his-wife-anne-c-16991766-37571/view_as/grid/search/makers:philippe-mercier-16891760/page/1|access-date=18 July 2021|website=Art UK|archive-date=18 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718093806/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/henry-ingram-7th-viscount-irwin-16911761-and-his-wife-anne-c-16991766-37571/view_as/grid/search/makers:philippe-mercier-16891760/page/1|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Temple Newsam Kip.jpg|alt=A coloured engraving made in 1699 by J Kip after a drawing by Leonard Knyff showing an aerial view of the house and estate at Temple Newsam|thumb|1699 Engraving by [[Jan Kip]] after a drawing by [[Leonard Knyff]]]]In the 1760s, [[Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine]], employed [[Capability Brown]] to re-landscape the park on the insistence of his wife, [[Frances Gibson Shepheard Ingram|Frances Shepheard]], daughter of [[Samuel Shepheard (died 1748)|Samuel Shepheard]].<ref name=":17">{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Steve|title=Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2017|pages=57}}</ref> Reflecting her interest in pastoral landscape design, Frances is depicted as a shepherdess in a portrait by [[Benjamin Wilson (painter)|Benjamin Wilson]] at Temple Newsam.<ref name=":17" /> Both Frances and Charles were actively involved in the design and implementation.<ref name=":18">{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Steve|title=Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2017|pages=61β62}}</ref> Some aspects of Brown's plan depicted in paintings by James Chapman and [[Michael Angelo Rooker]] were never completed such as a large lake near the house.<ref name=":18" /> Extant financial records show that in 1759 women as well as men were employed as garden labourers.<ref name=":21" /> After Charles died in 1778, Frances rebuilt the south wing in 1796; she lived at Temple Newsam until her death in 1807.<ref name=":15" /> Charles and Frances's eldest daughter [[Isabella Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford|Isabella Ingram]], (later Marchioness of Hertford) (d.1834) who inherited Temple Newsam, was the mistress of the [[Prince of Wales]] (later King [[George IV]]) from 1806 to 1819. In 1806, George visited Temple Newsam and presented Isabella with Chinese [[wallpaper]], which she hung in the small Drawing Room next to the Great Hall in around 1820, embellished with cut out birds from Audubon's ''[[The Birds of America]]'' (now worth Β£7.5 million).<ref>{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Steve|title=Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2017|pages=70}}</ref> Lady Hertford inherited the house in 1807; after her husband died in 1822 she spent the season in London, and the rest of the time at Temple Newsam where she involved herself in charitable works including distributing food and clothing to the local people.<ref name=":19">{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Steve|title=Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam|publisher=Pen & Sword|year=2017|pages=81β82}}</ref> She allowed the servants to hold an annual supper and ball at Temple Newsam.<ref name=":19" /> Reports of poachers were made during 1826 and 1827.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Steve|title=Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam|publisher=Pen & Sword|year=2017|pages=92β93}}</ref> During the last years of Isabella's life, the canal, railway and roads encroached on the estate as well as coal mining; and she dealt with the companies setting these up.<ref name=":19" /> In 1820 the novelist Sir [[Walter Scott]] published ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' featuring a [[Templar]] preceptory named Temple Stowe, believed to have been modelled on Temple Newsam; the name is preserved in local road names such as Templestowe Crescent.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|title=On the trail of the Templars|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2005/04/07/local_history_knights_templar_trail_feature.shtml|website=Leeds: Local history|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 June 2017|archive-date=23 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623191340/http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2005/04/07/local_history_knights_templar_trail_feature.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> At her death in 1834, Isabella left Temple Newsam to her widowed sister, Frances Ingram Shepheard, wife of [[Lord William Gordon]], who died in 1841.<ref>{{cite book|title=Temple Newsam House|publisher=The Libraries & Arts Committee of the Leeds Corporation|year=1951|pages=33}}</ref>[[File:Temple Newsam, Morris edited.jpg|thumb|right|Temple Newsam House from Morris's ''Country Seats'' (1880)]]In 1841 the estate was inherited by Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram (d. 1869), son of Elizabeth Ingram, sister of Frances Ingram (Lady Gordon), who made no alterations to the estate.<ref name=":20">{{cite book|title=Temple Newsam House|publisher=The Libraries & Arts Committee of the Leeds Corporation|year=1951|pages=35}}</ref> In 1868, the [[Edward VII|Prince of Wales]] stayed at Temple Newsam during his visit to Leeds to open the Fine Art Exhibition in the New [[Leeds General Infirmary]]; temporary triumphal arches were erected on the estate.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Steve|title=Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam|publisher=Pen & Sword|year=2017|pages=105β106}}</ref> Following Hugo Charles's death, his son [[Hugo Meynell-Ingram]] (d.1871) inherited Temple Newsam; two years later, at his death, his wife [[Emily Meynell-Ingram]] (d.1904) inherited the estate.<ref name=":20" /> Emily spent a large part of her widowhood at Temple Newsam; she developed it considerably by replacing the sash windows and remodelling the dining room, great staircase and Lord Darnley's room.<ref name=":20" /> Emily bequeathed Temple Newsam to her nephew [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax]].<ref name=guide/>
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