The BBC's Laura Trevelyan in Boston said people gathered patiently in the early morning sunshine for security checks to get inside.
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Rumours passed down through generations of the Trevelyan family claim it may have been over-painted by his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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Laura Trevelyan describes what it was like to report on Hurricane Sandy.
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The portrait, of Susannah "Suky" Trevelyan, has hung at Wallington since 1761.
Later, in 1853, his father Charles Trevelyan told a parliamentary committee that some Indians now spoke purer English "than we speak ourselves".
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The BBC's Laura Trevelyan reports from inside the court room.
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And the same can be said of Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
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