![]() ![]() If Washington's Seifullah Youssri and London's Abdel Aziz Izzet were married to the King's nieces, Mahmoud Fakhry Pasha in Paris was married to the king's eldest daughter.Īccording to contemporary press reports, the Izzets were reluctant residents at Bute House, its purchase having taken place against the pasha's personal recommendation. Neither was it a coincidence that Egypt's first senior diplomatic representatives to Paris, London and Washington were all related by marriage to the monarch. It was the King's policy to purchase prime properties in major capitals, hence the imposing Egyptian embassy residences in Washington, Paris, Rome and Athens. 75 South Audley Street is the official seat of the Egyptian embassy in London. She lived there until 1925.Īl Ahram of 4 December 1925 reports that the Egyptian government represented by the National Bank (al-Ahli) formerly acquired Bute House for 90,000 English Pounds. ![]() Together the above played a pivotal role in Egypt's precarious finances during Khedive Ismail's debt-mounting years.įollowing Bischoffsheim's death, Bute House passed on to his daughter Amelia Catherine wife of Anglo-Irish nobleman Sir Maurice Fitzgerald. Like his relations the Hirsch, Goldschmidts, Sassoons and Rothschilds, Louis Bischoffsheim was a director of a famous Jewish banking-house carrying his name. "Allegory with Venus and Time" fresco by Tiepolo that adorned the Louis XVI blue salon ceiling, sold in 1969 by an insolvent Egyptian government to London's National Gallery for an alleged sum of 300,000 pounds sterling The fabulously wealthy Jewish banker Henry Bischoffsheim with wife Clarissa and daughter Amelia (Lady Fitzgerald)īelow: masterpiece by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) The forgotten Tiepolo paintings would be re-discovered in December 1964 when a connoisseur from the Louvre museum identified them for what they were. This exquisite Venetian work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was accompanied by four roundels in grisaille. With his Viennese-born wife Clarissa, a daughter of Herr Bidderman, a Hapsburg court jeweler, Bischoffsheim supervised circa 1876 the installation of the famous "Allegory of Venus and Time" fresco on the Blue Drawing Room ceiling. An art collector and banker, Bute House's new owner was also a relation of the greatest art collector of his day, Nathan Rothschild. Henri Louis Bischoffsheim (1828-1908) acquired the property in 1872. He was succeeded by Lewis Hughes, MP, (afterwards Lord Dinorben) during whose occupancy part of the building burnt down in 1835. Thereafter it would be known as Bute House.īetween 1812-19 the 4th Duke of Buccleuch (also Sixth Duke of Queensberry) lived there. When he moved into the house in 1753, the Earl of Bute became the building's third occupant. In 1748 it was leased to Lady Margaret Watson (Dowager Lady Monson) for 220 pounds per annum. The three-story building was originally laid out in 1736 by Edward Shepheard for John St. ![]() The Stuart name is derived from the hereditary office of "Steward of Bute" held by the family since 1157.įlanked by South and Deanery Streets, Bute House fronts Mayfair's posh South Audley Street. Their son, King Robert II of Scotland, thus became the first Stuart King. The Bute family are direct descendants of King Robert the Bruce whose daughter Marjorie married in 1315 Walter, the then "Steward of Bute". Perhaps unpopular with the British public yet to his credit it was John Stuart who advised on the foundation of Kew Gardens. John Stuart (1713-92) Third Earl of Bute lived and later died at Bute House aged 79. Not to be confused with that other Bute House, which is today the official residence of Scotand’s First Minister situated in the heart of Edinburgh, the London Bute House is named after an unpopular 18th century Scottish nobleman who was British prime minister between May 1762 and April 1763). Your pain his gain !!!Ībove: First British occupant of Bute House: John Stuart Marquis of Buteīelow: First Egyptian occupants: Abdel Aziz Izzet Pasha and Baheya Mansour Yegen (a granddaughter of Khedive Ismail and the niece of King Fouad) Several of my articles on Garden City were plagiarized word for word by novelist MEKKAWI SAID (winner of the Egyptian State price for literature!!!!) and re-published under his own name in a three-part series in El-Masry El-Youm daily in September 2015.Ĭheers to our "talented" literature prize awardee. ![]() Bute House egy.com suggests following articles VILLA PRINCESS FAWZIA. ![]()
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