Of these all died save three girls, and a boy, Algernon, who became seventh Duke of Somerset.

Through one of the daughters, Catherine, who married Sir William Wyndham, the estates fell to the present family.

The next important Lord of Petworth was George O'Brien Wyndham, third Earl of Egremont, the friend of art and agriculture, who collected most of the pictures.

The present owner is the third Baron Leconfield.
[Illustration: _The Rother at Fittleworth._] [Sidenote: THE EARL AND THE HOUSEMAID] C.R.Leslie, who painted more than one picture in the Petworth gallery, has much to say in his _Autobiographical Recollections_ of its noble founder the third Earl, his generosity, courtesy, kindly thoughtfulness, and extreme modesty of bearing.

One story contains half his biography.