biography
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Bath, Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of
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| lived:
| (1905–92)
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| biography:
| Stately home operator, born in Longleat House, Warminster, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He inherited the family Elizabethan manor house, containing a fine art collection and library but in a poor state of repair. Faced with crippling death duties, he caused a sensation by opening the house to the paying public as a tourist attraction in 1949. He introduced lions and other wild animals to the estate grounds in the 1960s, creating the first safari park. |
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