by Jane Brown
Brown, Lancelot (Thomas-Susan’s son), 301
Brown, Margaret (LB’s daughter; ‘Peggy’) see Rust, Margaret
Brown, Mary (LB’s sister) see Hudson, Mary
Brown, Richard John (John-Jane’s son): birth, 4, 25; security, 95; legacy from LB, 199; and father’s death, 212; inherits fortune, 212; in Kirkharle, 218, 254; move to Newcastle and marriage, 218
Brown, Susan (or Susannah; née Dickins), 300–1
Brown, Susan (Thomas-Susan’s daughter), 301
Brown, Rev. Thomas (LB’s youngest son): settles in Huntingdonshire, 6; birth, 155; education, 156, 199; claims father a frind of Banks, 244; in LB’s will, 299; career, 300–1, 303; marriage to Susan and children, 300
Brown, Thomas (‘Old Thomas’ of Heatherwick), 8
Brown, Thomas (Old Thomas’s son), 9
Brown, Rev. Thomas, the younger, 301
Brown, Ursula (née Hall; LB’s mother): marriage, 9; children, 10–11; obscure later life and death, 14, 24, 50
Brown, William (LB’s father): and LB’s birth, 7; marriage, 9; in Redesdale, 9; settles in Kirkharle, 10, 12; and Jacobite rising (1715), 11; death, 13
Brown, William (LB’s son): birth and death, 60, 63
Brown, William (of Throckley), 211
Browne, Sir Charles, 34–5
Browne, Mary (née Pitt), 35
Bruce, Susanna, Lady (née Hoare), 181
Bruce, Thomas, 2nd Baron (later 7th Earl of Elgin), 181–3, 185
Bruff, Luke, 73–4
Brummell, William, 158
Buchan, Alice, 98
Buchan, John, 122
Buckingham House (now Palace), London (The Queen’s House), 140–2, 153, 154, 221, 304, 311
Buckingham, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of, 134, 141
Buckinghamshire: LB in, 34; see also Stowe
Builder’s Dictionary, The, 48
Bumstead, William, 64
Bunker Hill, battle of (1775), 263
Burghley House, near Stamford: LB’s portrait in, 4; Miller assists LB at, 84, 102; LB’s alterations and work at, 99–102, 163, 208–11, 230, 279, 282; water and lake, 100, 103–4, 120, 209–11, 282; Lord Exeter’s devotion to, 101; plan, 210; costs of alterations, 282
Burgoyne, General John (‘Gentleman Johnny’), 267
Burlington House, Piccadilly, 122
Burlington, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of, 20, 179, 181, 204
Burrell, Peter, 201
Burroughs, Rev. Benjamin, 129
Burroughs, Rev. William, 129
Burton Constable, East Yorkshire, 227–32, 241, 271, 308
Burton Dassett, 66
Burton, Francis, 145
Burton Pynsent, Somerset: tower (Burton Steeple), 17n, 184–5, 197; bequeathed to Chatham, 177–8, 194, 252; Lady Chatham sells land, 196; Chatham’s life at, 233
Bush, John: nursery, 80–1
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of: and Medmenham ‘friars’, 72; Bartram’s boxes sent to, 80; and improvement to St James’s Park, 130; influence on George III, 139; trustee for Queen’s House purchase, 141; LB hopes for commission from, 143; in LB’s account book, 159–60; and William Ireland, 165; advanced agricultural methods, 166; as Ranger of Richmond Park, 167; fall from grace, 243–4; LB visits, 243, 249; death, 243; seeks office with Chatham, 268
Byng, Admiral John, 117
Byng, Hon. John (diarist), 250
Byram, West Yorkshire, 213, 268, 291
Cadland House, Hampshire, 248, 265–6, 282
Cadogan, Charles, 2nd Baron, 165
Cadogan, Charles Sloane Cadogan, 3rd Baron and 1st Earl, 165
Cadogan, Elizabeth, Lady (née Sloane), 165, 264
Call, Thomas, 215–16
Cam (or Granta), River (Cambridgeshire), 168–9, 172
Cambo, Northumberland, 14, 20, 24
Cambridge: Botanic Gardens, 274; St John’s College, 275; development, 294–7
Cambridge, Richard Owen, 201, 206, 208
Camden, William: Britannia, 25
Campbell, Colin: Vitruvius Britannicus, 148
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), 113, 215
canals (waterways), 186–90
Capability Brown and the Northern Landscape (exhibition, Newcastle, 1983), 3
Capheaton Hall, Northumberland, 23
Cardiff Castle, 244
Carlton House Terrace, London, 318
Caroline, Queen of George II, 133, 140, 221
Carpenter, Stephen, 252
Carr, John, 176, 273, 283
Carton, Co. Kildare, 5
Cartwright, Elizabeth (née Dormer), 144
Cartwright, Thomas, 145
Cartwright, William, 144–5
Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, 161, 194–5, 197, 230
Castle Howard, Yorkshire, 28, 36, 319
Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia, 215n, 311
Cavendish, Sir William, 123
Caversham Park, Reading, 165
Cecil, Emma (née Vernon), 282
cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani): as LB’s signature tree, 79–80; at Warwick Castle, 91; at Sherborne Castle, 257
Centurion, HMS, 98
Chambers, Sir William: in Society for Encouragement of Arts, 142–3; as architect for Office of Works, 221; enmity towards LB, 223; lays out Richmond Park and Kew Gardens, 224; works on Clive’s London house, 238; Swedish knighthood, 244; Lord Milton quarrels with, 252, 254; supplies plan for Milton Abbas, 254; Harewood plans rejected, 283; influence on Le Rouge, 311; A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, 244–6
Charlecote, Warwickshire, 67–8, 70, 120, 129–32, 317
Charles II, King, 158, 245
Charlotte Sophia, Queen of George III, 139–41, 154–5, 220
Charlton, Barbara: Recollections of a Northumbrian Lady 1815–66, 24n
Charlton, William, 23
Chatham, Hester, Countess of (née Grenville), 107, 134, 143, 194–7, 233, 267, 268, 295
Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl of: and Burton Pynsent Tower, 17n; forms government (1766), 19; family, 35, 54; LB meets at Stowe, 54; ramblings, 54, 106–7; and Seven Years War (1756–63), 57n, 117, 119, 143; indifference to money, 105; political career, 105; buys and improves Hayes Place, 107–8, 295; marriage and children, 107–8; LB’s political allegiance to, 109; joint ministry with Devonshire (1756–7), 117, 122; petitions for royal appointment and pension for LB, 117; celebrity, 121; commissions LB to improve St James’s Park, 140; in government with Bute, 143; resigns and accepts earldom (1761), 143; on effect of Eton, 155; inherits Pynsent estate, 177–8, 184, 252; health, 194–7, 233, 268–9; seeks house, 195–6; resigns (1767), 197; recommends LB to Lady Stanhope, 262; opposes war in America, 263–4, 266–9; death and funeral, 269, 279
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire: LB’s work at, 120, 122, 125–7; painted, 122, 125; development, 123–5; drainage and water features, 125–6; later development, 128n; Thomas Gray on, 128; 4th Duke wishes no lake at, 133; Paxton at, 316
Cheam School, Berkshire, 287
Chelsea Physic Garden, 79
Chevening, Kent, 107–8
Chillington, Staffordshire, 190–1, 294
Chippendale, Thomas, 97
Chiswick House, Middlesex, 20, 95, 122
Churchill, Charles, 72
Chute, John, 84
Cibber, Colley, 203
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 97
Clandon, Surrey, 235
Clanricarde, John de Burgh, 11th Earl of, 235
Claremont, Esher, Surrey, 133, 142, 234, 236–41, 247
Clarke, James, 232
Claude Lorrain, 56, 193, 260, 315
Clifford of Chudleigh, Hugh, 4th Baron, 176–7
Clifton-Taylor, Alec, 65
Clive, Edward (later 1st Earl of Powis), 236
Clive, George, 142
Clive, Margaret, Lady (née Maskelyne), 236, 241
Clive, Richard, 142
Clive, Robert, Baron: Chatham and, 117; Plassey victory (1757), 117; and Pigot, 191; elected to Society for Enc
ouragement of Arts, 192; at Oakly, near Ludlow, 233, 241, 247; ownership of Claremont, 236, 238–41; wealth, 236; death, 241; and John Mainwaring, 275
Coade, Eleanor, 209
Cobb (carpenter), 292
Cobham, Anne, Viscountess (née Halsey): as heir to Stoke Park, 43; marriage, 43; childlessness, 44; deference to, 51–2; and husband’s monument, 58; moves to Stoke Park in widowhood, 59–60, 62; LB visits at Stoke Park, 60, 92; and Thomas Gray., 61; death, 144
Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount: appoints LB head gardener at Stowe, 38; agnosticism, 41; background and military career, 43; and Roberts’ suicide, 47; grants Stowe pavilion for LB’s home, 51; Cubs (followers), 53–4; relations with LB, 53; and construction of Grecian Valley, 55–6; monument, 57–9; death and burial, 59; lends LB to friends and relations, 62
Codrington, Sir William, 160
Colebrooke, Sir George, 160
Collins (Warwick stone-carver), 69
Collinson, Peter, 80
Collison, William, 145
Columbine, Captain Ventris, 43
Colvin, Brenda: Land and Landscape, 1–2
Company of Gardeners, 15
Compton, Henry, Bishop of London, 81
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 67, 268
Condover Hall, Shropshire, 236
Congreve, William: ‘Of Improving the Present Time’, 39, 41
Constable, William, 227–32
Constable, Winifred, 229
Cook, Captain James, 221
Cook, Thomas, 72
Cooke, Philippa, 157, 199
Coombe Abbey, Coventry, 249–51
Coram, Captain Thomas (Foundling Hospital), 97
Cornewall, Catherine, Lady, 288
Cornewall, Sir George, 288–9
Cornwallis, General Charles, 1st Marquess, 279
Corsham Court, Wiltshire, 137–9
Cosway, Richard, 235, 237
Cotton, Charles see Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton
Cotton, Sir John Hynde, 110–11, 192, 225
Coventry, Anne, Dowager Countess of (née Somerset), 68–9, 129–30
Coventry, Barbara, Countess of (née St John), 292
Coventry, George William, 6th Earl of: and LB’s death and funeral, 3–4, 6; at Croome, 67, 70–1, 82–5, 87, 232, 292–3; reconciliation with Dowager Countess, 68, 130; succeeds to earldom, 75; marriage to Maria Gunning, 88; death of wife, 89; payments to LB, 97, 160; signs petition for royal appointment and pension for LB, 118; and Eva Maria Veigel, 203; second marriage, 292
Coventry, John (15th century), 83
Coventry, John Bulkeley, 160
Coventry, Maria, Countess of (née Gunning), 88, 187, 292–3
Coventry, Thomas, 83
Coventry, William, 5th Earl and Elizabeth, Countess of (née Allen), 70
Cowling, Mary Anne, 301
Cowling, Mary Elizabeth (LB’s natural daughter), 300–2
Cowling, Peter, jr, 301–2
Cowling, Rev. Peter Lancelot (Peter-Mary Elizabeth’s son), 301
Cowper, William: The Task, 1, 279, 313–14
Craven, Elizabeth, Countess of (later Margravine of Anspach), 235; Memoirs, 251
Craven, William, 6th Earl of, 235, 237, 250–1, 294
Croome, Worcestershire: memorial casket to LB, 4; Coventry at, 67, 82; LB visits, 70–1, 292; improvements, 71, 74, 84–9; LB’s proposed development, 75–6; drainage, 83, 85, 126, 132, 232; lake and water features, 83, 104, 293; costs, 84, 160; working methods, 84–5; plan, 86–7; Chinese bridge, 102n; Palmyra-style ceiling, 102; painted by Richard Wilson, 122; Adam at, 292–3; as sporting estate, 292–3; grotto, 293; Temple Greenhouse, 293; Young on, 316
Crosby, Robert, 23
Crowe, Dame Sylvia, 307, 320–1
Cuffnells, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, 265
Cumberland, Duke of see William Augustus
Cunliffe, Sir Ellis, 179
D’Abitot (D’Abetot), Urso, 83
Dacre, Thomas Barret Lennard, 17th Baron (of Belhus), 76, 92, 99, 102, 104, 133–4, 242
Damer, Anne Seymour (née Conway), 252
Damer, John, 252
Damer, Joseph, 174
Dance, Nathaniel, 4, 208, 245
Dashwood, Sir Francis (later Baron le Despencer), 72
Dashwood, Sir James, 71–2, 92
Davis, John Lambe, 288
Davis, William and George, 157, 199
Deerhurst, Thomas Henry Coventry, Viscount, 70–1, 74
Defoe, Daniel, 50, 77–8, 93, 122–3
Delany, Mary (née Granville), 135–6, 243
Denbigh, William Feilding, 5th Earl and Isabella, Countess of, 62, 92
Derby, Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of, 233
Derwent, River (Derbyshire), 123–4
Derwentwater, James Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of, 11–12
Devonshire, Charlotte, Duchess of (née Boyle), 122
Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of (née Mitford), 125–6
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of (née Spencer), 128n
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of, 124
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of, 24
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of (earlier Marquess of Hartington), 117, 122, 124–6, 133, 204
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of, 128n
Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of, 128n, 316
Dewell, John, 120
Dickens, Ambrose, 161
Dickins, Rev. Charles, 300
Dickinson, Cornelius, 257
Diderot, Denis, 203
Digby family, 256, 260
Digby Edward, 6th Baron, 257
Digby, Henry, 7th Baron, 257
Digby, Captain Robert, 257
Dinefwr (Newton House or Dynevor), Carmarthenshire, 289
Dingley, Charles, 196
Ditchingham, Norfolk, 181
Ditton Park, Buckinghamshire, 235
Dodington, Gloucestershire, 160
Dodsley, R. and J., 113
Doherty, John, 71, 75
Donaldson, Anna Maria, 206
Donegall, Arthur Chichester, 5th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of, 233, 235, 251
Donn, William, 163–4
Down estate, Blandford St Mary, Dorset, 252
Downham House, Suffolk, 165n
Drayton, Michael, 190
Driver, Samuel, 99n
Drummond, Andrew, 97, 195, 204, 265
Drummond, Lady Elizabeth (née Compton), 195
Drummond, Henry, 194–5, 197
Drummond, John, 199, 265, 299
Drummond, Robert, 265–6
Drummonds Bank, 97, 111, 160, 163, 234
Drury Lane Theatre, London, 262
duck decoys, 293–4
Duck, Stephen, 222
Duffield, Thomas, 217, 218n
Duncombe Park, Yorkshire, 287
Dundas, Sir Lawrence, 213
Durant, George, 191
Dyrham, near Enfield, 183
Eaton Hall, Cheshire, 317
Edge Hill, Warwickshire, 64–6, 287
Edison, John, 3, 199, 299
Egremont, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of, 82, 93, 96–7, 108, 112, 118
Ellison, Henry, 28
Elsdon, Northumberland, 8–9
Eltonhead, William, 85
Embleton, Richard, 211
Emes, William, 181, 190, 309
Encombe, Dorset, 106
Enfield Chace, Middlesex, 54
Enville, near Stourbridge, 119
Errington, Lancelot, 11
Essex, James, 274, 278
Eton College, 155–6
Etruria Hall and Park, Staffordshire, 190
Euston Hall, Suffolk, 72, 194, 207–8
Evans, John, 290
Evelyn, John: on Hampton Court, 158; Sylva, 17–18
Evenlode, River, 144, 150, 182
Exeter, Anne, Countess of (née Cheatham), 208
Exeter, Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of, 4, 100, 102, 118, 208–9, 233, 282
Exeter, He
nry Cecil, 10th Earl (later 1st Marquess) of, 102, 282
Exeter, John Cecil, 5th Earl of, 101
Exeter, Laetitia, Countess of (née Townshend), 100, 102
Exeter, Sally, Countess of (née Hoggins), 283
Eywood (estate), Titley, 247
Fairbrother, Nan: New Lives, New Landscapes, 1–2, 122
Fairfax, Ann, 228
Fanelli, Francesco: Arethusa (or Diana, statue), 158
Farington, Joseph, 122
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire, 66–7, 139
Fawsley, Northamptonshire, 145, 249–50
Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire: LB and Bridget buried at, 5–6, 299; LB acquires, 161, 195, 197–9, 225, 302; tree-planting, 274; memorial tree, 308
Fenwick, Catherine, 24n
Fenwick, Sir John, 20, 159
Fermanagh, Ralph Verney, 2nd Viscount (later 1st Earl Verney), 55
fermes ornées, 17, 75, 89
Fiennes, Celia, 42, 173
Finmere, Buckinghamshire, 59
Fish, James, 67
Fisherwick, Staffordshire, 233, 251
Fitzherbert family, 190
Fitzmaurice, Thomas, 290
Flambards (or Flamberts), Harrow-on-the-Hill, 166n
Fleming, Elizabeth (née Knightley), 249
Fleming, Jane, Lady see Lascelles, Jane
Fleming, John, 249, 265
Flitcroft, Henry, 20, 268
Floyer, Sir John: A Treatise of the Asthma, 94
Fonthill, Wiltshire, 290
Forster, Ralph, 217
Forster, Thomas, 11
Foulerton (Castle Ashby agent), 194
Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, 285, 287
