Viscount Monck

English landowner and architect. After their marriage in 1804, he and his wife, Louisa (d. 1824), visited Greece, where they met Gell, and saw numerous Antique remains. They also visited Germany, where Monck sketched several Neo-Classical buildings, including Langhans's Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. When the Moncks returned to their estate in Northum. in 1806 (with a large collection of drawings and a son, appropriately named Charles Atticus (1805–56) ), they decided to erect a new house at Belsay, and the work was completed in 1817, one of the world's outstanding buildings in the Greek Revival style (and one of noble simplicity and clarity, happily devoid of pedantry), for which Monck was his own architect, supervising all the work himself. This fine, austere, and unconventional house has been wrongly attributed to John Dobson, the distinguished architect who practised in and around Newcastle upon Tyne: Dobson advised Monck on certain aspects such as the details of Ionic capitals and how to draw them accurately for craftsmen, but otherwise Belsay is entirely Monck's work (his draughtsmanship was, in Colvin's words, ‘neat and accurate’), although he also discussed his work with Gell who seems to have suggested certain refinements. Nowhere in England was the Arcadian vision of Romantic Neo-Classicism better expressed than at Belsay in its setting, and nowhere may finer ashlar work be seen. At Belsay, Monck also designed the stables (with octagonal lantern based on the Athenian ‘Tower of the Winds’), the Greek Revival lodges, and a remarkable garden in the quarry from which the stone for the house was taken. Monck designed Linden House, near Morpeth (1812–13), with a Greek Doric portico, and a long terrace of houses in the Italianate style, with arcaded ground floor, at Belsay Village (probably prompted by a visit to Sicily and Italy in 1830–1), and the Old School (1829 and 1841).

Bibliography

• Colvin (1995)
• Crook (1972a)
• Monck papers, NRO, 5/223–6
• Pevsner (ed.): Buildings of England, Northumberland (1992)

The full bibliography for this book is available to download as a pdf file.
Download the bibliography for A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (PDF: 1.2MB)

Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck

Viscount Monck, of Ballytrammon in the County of Wexford, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1801 for Charles Monck, 1st Baron Monck. He had already been created Baron Monck, of Ballytrammon in the County of Wexford, in 1797, also in the Peerage of Ireland. His eldest son, the second Viscount, was in 1822 created Earl of Rathdowne in the Peerage of Ireland. However, this title became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the other titles by his younger brother, the third Viscount. The latter's son, the fourth Viscount, served as Governor General of Canada. In 1866 he was created Baron Monck, of Ballytrammon in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave the viscounts an automatic seat in the House of Lords until the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. As of 2006 the titles are held by his great-great-grandson, the seventh Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1982. He does not use his titles.

Contents 1 Viscounts Monck (1801) 2 Earls of Rathdowne (1822) 3 Viscounts Monck (1801; Reverted) 4 References

Viscounts Monck (1801)

• Charles Stanley Monck, 1st Viscount Monck (c. 1754–1802)
• Henry Stanley Monck, 2nd Viscount Monck (1785–1848) (created Earl of Rathdowne in 1822)

Earls of Rathdowne (1822)

• Henry Stanley Monck, 1st Earl of Rathdowne (1785–1848)

Viscounts Monck (1801; Reverted)

• Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, 3rd Viscount Monck (1791–1849)
• Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (1819–1894)
• Henry Power Charles Stanley Monck, 5th Viscount Monck (1849–1927)
• Henry Wyndham Stanley Monck, 6th Viscount Monck (1905–1982)
• Charles Stanley Monck, 7th Viscount Monck (b. 1953)

The Heir Presumptive is the present holder's brother the Hon. George Stanley Monck (b. 1957)

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

v • d • e British viscounts*   ...of England, ...of Scotland and ...of Great Britain Hereford ·· Falkland · Arbuthnott · Oxfuird ·· Bolingbroke & St John · Cobham · Falmouth · Torrington · Hood   ...of Ireland (pre-1801) Gormanston · Mountgarret · Valentia · Dillon · Massereene & Ferrard · Charlemont · Downe · Molesworth · Chetwynd · Midleton · Boyne · Gage · Galway · Powerscourt · Ashbrook · Southwell · de Vesci · Lifford · Bangor · Doneraile · Haberton · Hawarden   ...of the United Kingdom & ...of Ireland (post-1801) Monck · St Vincent · Melville · Sidmouth · Gort · Exmouth · Combermere · Hill · Hardinge · Gough · Birdport · Portman · Hampden · Hambleden · Knutsford · Esher · Goschen · Ridley · Colville of Culross · Churchill · Selby · Knollys · Allendale · Chilston · Scarsdale · Mersey · Cowdray · Devonport · Astor · Wimborne · St Davids · Rothermere · Allenby · Chelmsford · Long · Ullswater · Younger of Leckie · Bearsted · Craigavon · Bridgeman · Hailsham · Brentford · Buckmaster · Bledisloe · Hanworth · Trenchard · Samuel · Runciman of Doxford · Davidson · Weir · Caldecote · Simon · Camrose · Stansgate (d) · Margesson · Daventry · Addison · Kemsley · Marchwood · Alanbrooke · Montgomery of Alamein · Waverley · Thurso · Brookeborough · Norwich · Leathers · Soulbury · Chandos · Malvern · De L'Isle · Monckton of Brenchley · Tenby · Mackintosh of Halifax · Dunrossil · Stuart of Findhorn · Rochdale · Slim · Head · Boyd of Merton · Mills · Blakenham · Eccles · Dilhorne *Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)