Memory 3 - The 1st Earl of Mansfield and Elizabeth Dido Belle

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Society & Culture, Arts, History

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In these ‘Memories’ episodes, Emma has selected some of her most treasured memories from the Duchess podcast. On this week’s Memory, we listen back to when The Duchess met to Lady Mansfield of Scone Palace and heard the moving story of one of Britain’s first black aristocrats: Elizabeth Dido Bell. In the full episode Lady Mansfield and The Duchess speak about the incredible contributions the first Earl Mansfield made to racial equality, we learn about the Stone of Destiny and how central Scone was in crowing Scottish royalty, and Lady Mansfield explains the origins behind one of Scone’s great treasures: Marie Antoinette’s writing desk. Listen to the full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lady-mansfield-of-scone-palace/id1551120994?i=1000511515822 Resources: https://scone-palace.co.uk/ https://www.belvoircastle.com/ https://www.onefineplay.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.3	And there was a very, very famous member of your family.
1:05.8	Was he the first Earl of Mansfield?
1:09.2	Yes, the first Earl of Mansfield.
1:10.5	His story is amazing. He was born in 1705, one of
1:14.4	13 children. And at the time, the family were struggling with Jacobite Rebellions, and they had
1:20.2	paid lots of fines because they had sided with on the wrong side. And he was very bright. He was
1:25.9	at Perth Grammar School, but he was luckily able to
1:30.1	go to London and be educated in London. He got to London by being taken by a family retainer
1:35.1	over to Dumfrieshire on a pony and from Dumfrieshire, which is in the north-west of Scotland
1:39.7	just above Carlisle, he walked to London. It took him 57 days. When he got to London, he went to Westminster
1:48.0	School, where he had a scholarship. And when he left Westminster School, he wanted to go to Oxford University.
1:54.0	He couldn't afford the fees at Oxford University. And his friend from school, his father, Lord Foley,
1:59.9	paid for him to go to Christchurch at Oxford.
2:02.0	And he went to Christchurch, spent four years there, and then joined Lincoln's Inn,
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