'Repton believed cottages added cheerfulness'

... George Devey and Norman Shaw, and its 'stockbroker Tudor' progeny, the style was selected by the 6th Duke ofßedford, one of the Whig magnates who figured largely among Repton's richer clients. He wanted a 'cottage of the style and date ofbuildings prior to ...

Published: Thursday 14 September 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 440 | Page: 152 | Tags: none

THAT OF AMESBUHY BY JOH WEBB

... perhaps for \Vi! bury, had to be revised in the eYent, though lheir foundations had been duly laid in bolh sen cs. \Vhen the ·whigs swept back to power in 17 1-1- 15, he was returned as .M .P. for Shafte - AS AT ; and the Surveyorshi p of vVorks was put in ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1959
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 462 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

(R ight) A LATE EIGHTEENTH CE TURY S

... here was H enry H olland, who, as architect to the Prince of Wales, was patronised chiefly by the Carlton Hou e et and the Whig noblemen. A pupil of H olland 's was C. H. Tatham , whose brother, Thoma , was a partner in the firm of Marsh and T atham ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1938
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 445 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

From ground level: origins of the landscape park

... artistic pursuit to the gradual exclusion of more serious activities’. His association with William Kent, Lord Burlington and the Whig leaders led to the stylish layout of his park in 1730–40. Castle Hill illustrates the transitional stage that left behind ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 2009
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LIFE

... him from the House and lodge him in the Tower for the first half of 1712. His sufferings in the Whig cause, however, did not ensure him a high place in the Whig Ministry called together by George I at his accession in 1714. Lord Townshend of Rainham had ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1921
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1405 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

Capability Brown (Fig 1). The ' Grecian building', although among the la t of the monuments to be realised, was

... of the house so that it could be read as the start of a erie of depictions of political liberty, as conceived by the great Whig families. These concepts arise in ancient Greece; they are handed on to Rome (embodied by the Temple of Ancient Virtue, and ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 701 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

By SIBYLLA JANE FLOWER

... success of this rouged dandy. Between 1832 and 1841 he represented Lincoln in the House of Commons as a Radical allied to the Whigs. In 1838 he received a baronetcy in Queen Victoria's Coronation Honours List for services to literature. His marriage to Rosina ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1985
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1150 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

ONE VOTE

... such was his power and influence that there was no more wavering. The Bill was presex;ted and was carried by one vote. The Whigs were discouraged by their narrow victory and Grey talked of retiring or going to the country. Modifications to the Bill, to ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1966
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

His French Finery

... French Finery He appeared in public four times, each time being greeted by a dour silence. His officers gave a ball. The young Whig’'s heart doubtless fluttered, but Papa issued a stern edict that the invitation was to be declined. No Glasgow lady with any ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

''A-MONMOUTH! A-MONMOUTH!. • •

... gifted with the Stuarts' athleticism, was still very fond of Grey kept Charlton H.oper, a Whig his nephew. Grey kept hounds at Charlton with Squire H.oper, a Whig sympathiser and renowned huntsman; and Monmouth, always an ardent venerer, now established ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1979
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1741 | Page: 122 | Tags: none

AN INLAID SATINWOOD TABLE

... silver plate, engraved with scrolls, dates and inscriptions. Of the two elates chosen, r6BB and 1735, the former marks the Whig revolution and reign of vVilliam 111, while the latter is not nationally memorable. i\l. J. Upon one side is a engraved with ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1927
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 74 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE. July 14th, 1934. Copyright. THE HEADMASTER'S HO E WITH THE WAR MEMORIAL STEPS 0 THE RJGHT C .L

... .§ e SN e ey eighteenth drew in the first to-day. The of Harrow heyday the Georges. Whig establishment Tory strong- was favoured who liked Eton, Whig noblemen by Whig their to grow up political bias. Ambassador, brings Harrow century than the economy) ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1934
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1353 | Page: 40 | Tags: none