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who was illegitimate under English law as his parents married after he was born (and under Scottish law as they had no Scottish domicile), but was able to inherit a life interest in the family's English wealth and properties. During his tenancy, Streatlam was described as consisting of twenty-four
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and his wife, which meant that the Scottish branch of the Bowes-Lyon family, namely the Earls of Strathmore, had not been in ownership or residence at Streatlam for from 1820 to 1885, thereby becoming more focused on their Scottish estates. The English estates only reverted to the Earl and his
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titles of the last owner and occupant would suggest, Streatlam was less important in historical terms. Another possible reason is that, for much of the nineteenth century, the Scottish and English estates had been split, with Streatlam and Gibside owned by
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An exhibition on the history of Streatlam Castle opened at the Bowes Museum in November 2017, and then moved to Glamis Castle in March 2018. It included paintings previously displayed at the property, and scale models of the castle and the estate.
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Although there was no pressing financial need to sell at the time, with the family still earning a substantial income from the estate's coal mining holdings, in the end the house was simply considered superfluous. The Earl also owned Wemmergill in
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Following his death without issue, the estate was reunited with the Earldom in 1885. Unlike the fate of other properties which belonged to the
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bedrooms, two oak drawing-rooms, the yellow drawing room, the great dining room, the billiard-room, the study and the gentlemen's room.
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Lady Strathmore, though ill at the time, hurried down to Streatlam to rescue as many items as possible, many of which were taken to
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The House had come to the Bowes family by the fifteenth century. For much of the nineteenth century, it was owned by
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over Streatlam, the house being considered architecturally "awkward and unsatisfactory" (as was claimed in
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descendants when John Bowes died without issue, leaving his fortune to his first cousin once removed, the
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Some see it as little surprise that the Earl of Strathmore chose
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and so was considered spoilt by pollution from the surrounding
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Streatlam
County Durham
England

Streatlam Castle is located in County Durham
County Durham
54°34′16″N 1°52′12″W / 54.571°N 1.870°W / 54.571; -1.870
Grid reference
NZ085195
Baroque
Barnard Castle
County Durham
England
Bowes-Lyon
Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Glamis Castle
Forfarshire
Scotland
Gibside
Gateshead
farms
Lord Glamis
15th Earl
14th Earl
John Bowes
10th Earl of Strathmore
Bowes-Lyon
Gibside
coalfield
Gateshead

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