formerly the London residence of the Earls Spencer Stratford House, built 1770-66 by Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough. Suffolk Place, Southwark (Duke of Suffolk) Wentworth House, 5, St James's Square, built in 1748-51 by William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, to the design of Matthew Brettingham The Elder. in 1984 it was the Libyan "People's Bureau", gunshots from which caused the Murder of Yvonne Fletcher. Episcopal palaces Ely Palace (Bishop of Ely) Arundel House (Bishop of Bath and Wells) Bromley Palace (Bishop of Rochester) Durham House (Bishop of Durham) Fulham Palace (Bishop of London) Lambeth Palace (Archbishop of Canterbury) Winchester Palace (Bishop of Winchester), Southwark; Rochester House (Bishop of Rochester), Southwark; Waverley House (Abbot of Waverley), Southwark; York House (Archbishop of York) English provinces Whilst most English examples of the townhouse occur in London, provincial cities also contain some historical examples, for example Bampfylde House (destroyed in WW II) in Exeter, the county capital of Devon, the townhouse of Baron Poltimore of the Bampfylde family, whose main country seat was Poltimore House in Devon. Also in Exeter was Bedford House, also demolished, the town residence of the Duke of Bedford who resided principally at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire but required a base in the West Country from which to administer his vast estates there. Scotland Edinburgh Bute House - former residence of the Marquis of Bute in Edinburgh's Charlotte Square, now the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland Dundas House - former Edinburgh home of Sir Lawrence Dundas, now the principal branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland John Knox House - 15th-century townhouse on the Royal Mile Old Moray House - 17th-century dwelling of the Earls of Moray in the Canongate Queensberry House - bought in 1689 by William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, now incorporated into the new Scottish Parliament Building and housing the office of the Presiding Officer The Georgian House, Edinburgh - restored 18th-century townhouse which is open to the public Ireland Dublin Leinster House in Dublin - residence of the Duke of Leinster (Ireland's premier duke) and now the seat of Oireachtas Éireann, the Irish parliament. Powerscourt House - Dublin residence of Viscount Powerscourt, a prominent Irish peer. It was sensitively converted into an award-winning shopping centre in the 1980s. (See an image of one of its decorated ceilings .) Georgian Dublin consisted of five Georgian squares, which contained the townhouses of