Editing Wentworth Woodhouse (section)

===Lease to Lady Mabel College===
The [[Ministry of Health (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Health]] attempted to requisition the house as "housing for homeless industrial families". To prevent this, the 7th Earl attempted to donate the house to the [[National Trust]], but the Trust declined to take it. In the end, [[Lady Mabel Fitzwilliam]], sister of the 7th Earl and a local [[alderman]], brokered a deal whereby the [[West Riding County Council]] leased most of the house for an educational establishment, leaving forty rooms as a family apartment.<ref>Bailey 2007: 397–402.</ref> Thus, from 1949 to 1979, the house was home to the Lady Mabel College of Physical Education, which trained female [[physical education]] teachers. The college later merged with Sheffield City Polytechnic (now [[Sheffield Hallam University]]), which eventually gave up the lease in 1988 as a result of high maintenance costs.<ref>Bailey 2007: 449.</ref>