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... architecture, despite the fact that he was the leading country-house architect of the 16905, the preferred choice of the ruling Whigs. But those of his houses that survive, together with two extensive groups of drawings-one for a Trianon for William 11l (which ...
... redemption of British prisoners of war. In I 710 until I 713 he was Envoy Extraordinary to Portugal. In I 715, he was elected as Whig MP for West Looe in Cornwall. Two years later he bought the Seaton Delaval estate, a Delaval seat since the 12th century, from ...
... brooms and baskets, with visitors enjoying themselves among gravel paths. The gardens, reputedly constructed to epitomise Whig political ideas, were long dismissed as fantasy but archaeological remains prove that they did exist. Although they were swept ...
... attributed to a Florentine architect, Alessandro Galilei, who came to England in 1714 and was introduced to the inner circle of the Whig aristocracy by the English ambassador to Florence, John Molesworth. Galilei's attempt to design churches, country houses, and ...
... 24, Nylon; 25, Tormentor. DOWN. 1, Srupendous; 2. Virulenr, 3, States; 4, Levy; 5, Childishly; 6, Beef stew; 7, Soviet; 8, Whig; 14, Affability; 15, Elderberry; 17, Plodding; 18, Rapacity; 20, Humble; 21Veneer; 22, Rant; 23, Murk. Winner 0f3892 is Rose ...
... victor of La Hogue, defeating a French fl eet sent in support of J ames 11. Thereafter, he was an influential member of the Whig 'junto'. MP for Cambridgeshire, he was created Earl of Orford in 1697. He clearly spent a great deal of money on Chippenham ...
... Green Shoot I 7 J uly 2002 An accompanist will be provided or bring your own . Green Shoot Productions , Unit 3 . Northern Whig , Street . BTI 2 DX Tel . ( 028 ) 90 291 555 : Email : martin @ martinlynch . co . uk 46 ...
... explains how it haunted his son. I N 1745, Alderman William Beckford, the richest subject of the Crown and a hero of the populist Whigs in Parliament (Fig 5), bought Fonthill House in Wiltshire. He set about re- shaping its grounds with multiple garden buildings ...
... Holland. In the garden of Holland House in Kensington stood a gigantic bronze bust of Napoleon by Canova; at their suppers, the Whig opposition, Irish nationalists and radical exiles from Continental Europe listened COUNTRY LIFE • APRIL 14, 2005 111 to the ...
... Past, to the extent of almost stifling his wit. But his memoirs accurately reflect his political underpinnings: his inherited Whig liberalism, and the British virtues of compromise and reasonableness, a combination that is inherently incapable offeeling ...
... devastating fire that reduced half the town to ashes. Worse still was the fact that most of the surrounding landowners were Whigs hostile to the king, and as he left the burnt town, he was subject to not one but two plots to capture and assassinate him ...
... Gavin Hamilton as the result of a trip to Italy in 1772. For over a century, Lansdowne House was the London home of a powerful Whig dynasty-the 2nd Earl of Shelburne, created the M arquess of Lansdowne in 1784, was foreign secretary and prime minister; his ...