INSIDE BECKFORD'S OF THE MIND A remarkable sequence of grottoes populates the landscape round Fonthill. ..
... 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 ...