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seventy-one, and was buried at Helmingham. There is a pastel portrait
of Lady Frances at Helmingham, probably taken by her mother, Grace
Carteret, Countess of Dysart. She is working at a tambour frame, a parrot
beside her and a white Spitz dog at her feet. After Lord Dysart’s death
Steephill was sold, and his thatched cottage was replaced by a castle
in the style approved in 1830.
Wilbraham, Earl of Dysart, died at Ham House on the 9th of
March, 1821, at the age of eighty-two. He was buried at Helmingham,
where his peal of bells is his only memorial. He had survived all his
family except his sister Lady Louisa Manners, and in him the male line
of the Tollemache family ceased.

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