page_title: William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791)
section_title: Builder
hierarchical_section_title: William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791) / Builder
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Libyan People's Bureau, 5, St James's Square, London. From here WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot on 17 April 1984
context_page_description: William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, styled Viscount Wentworth until 1739 was a peer and member of the House of Lords of Great Britain.
context_section_description: Strafford added a neo-Palladian range to Wentworth Castle, his country house in Yorkshire, a project begun in 1759 and completed in 1764. As its principal designer, this gained him an entry in Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects. Strafford's friend Horace Walpole described this south front on 2 August 1770, as showing "the most perfect taste in architecture": 
  Between 1748-51 he also built as his townhouse Wentworth House, 5, St James's Square, London, to the design of Matthew Brettingham The Elder. It remained the London residence of his descendants until after 1968, and in 1984 was the site of the "Libyan Peoples' Bureau" from which shots were fired which caused the murder of Yvonne Fletcher.
caption: Left: Wentworth House, 5, St James's Square, London, townhouse built 1748-51 by the 2nd Earl to the design of Matthew Brettingham The Elder[3]
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