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Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath ED JP (26 January 1905 – 30 June 1992), styled Lord Henry Thynne until 1916 and Viscount Weymouth between 1916 and 1946, was a British aristocrat, landowner, and Conservative Party politician.
Lord Henry Thynne, second son of the third Marquess, was a Conservative politician and notably served as Treasurer of the Household from 1875 to 1880. Lord Alexander Thynne, third son of the fourth Marquess, represented Bath in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1918. The family seat is Longleat House .
Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th marquess of Bath was a British nobleman who in 1949 turned Longleat House, his financially distressed family’s 16th-century home, into a tourist attraction, setting a precedent that was followed by a number of his peers.
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Henry Frederick Thynne, landowner and safari-park pioneer, born Longleat Wiltshire 26 January 1905, styled Viscount Weymouth 1916-46, MP (Conservative) Frome 1931-35, succeeded 1946 as sixth...
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Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (6 May 1932 – 4 April 2020), styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, was an English peer and landowner, owner of the Longleat estate, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, and also an artist and author.
28 nov 2020 · Longleat has been the backdrop to many firsts, long at the forefront of British society. Another came in 1966, when Henry Thynne, the 6th Marquess of Bath, not content with simply opening the house and gardens to the public, decided to add a safari park, too - the first in the world outside of Africa.
19 mag 2023 · Visitors have been welcomed onto the 450-year-old Wiltshire estate since 1949 when Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath had the controversial idea to open its doors to the paying public. He went on to totally redefine the world of tourism in 1966 when he launched the only drive-through safari park outside of Africa.
