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Why are Latin approximations given for each of the Greek deities on this Greek sculpture? Greek was the Imperial language in Achaea. --Wetman05:18, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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My hunch is that the Thomas Beaumont who purchased the puteal in 1827 was Thomas Richard Beaumont (1758-1829), married to Diana Wentworth, daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth, 5th Bt. (Burke's Peerage), immensely rich, enlarging and improving Bretton Hall. His son, Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (1792-1848), had suffered a ruinously expense bid for re-election to Parliament just the year before, in 1826; it cost him £40,000 and was the subject of a duel (Bretton Hall archives). T. W. Beaumont was so strapped for cash when he inherited in 1829 that he sold off almost all the contents of Bretton Hall in 1832 (Bretton Hall archives), though apparently not the immovable puteal. Just a thought...--Wetman06:07, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
