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  Merchant Venturers of Newcastle, 15

  Merlin Entertainments, 89

  Methuen, Sir Paul, 137–9

  Mickle (Dodington foreman), 163

  Middleton (village), Dorset, 174–5, 253, 254

  Midgeley, John, 130, 149, 163, 165, 195, 290

  Midleton, George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount, 118, 208

  Milbanke, Sir Ralph, 212

  Miller, Charles, 274

  Miller, Philip, 274; Gardener’s Dictionary, 79, 213

  Miller, Sanderson, 63

  Miller, Sanderson, Jr: LB meets and works with, 63, 66–9; love of Gothic, 63–4, 91, 105, 287; and Egge Cottage, Radway, 65; at Croome, 71; and alterations to Burghley, 84, 102; as amateur architect, 88; friendship with Dacre, 92, 98–9; and Belhus, 98–9; and proposed lake at Belhus, 104, 133; on Pitt the Elder, 105–6; Farnborough Hall pavilion, 139; Ingestre Hall tower, 188; Gothic castle at Wimpole, 277, 285

  Miller, Susannah (née Trotman), 63

  Millikan, Michael (Melican): as George III’s gardener, 4, 222; as foreman at Chatsworth, 126–7; payments from LB, 163; moves to Richmond, 165

  Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas (or Middleton), Dorset, 161, 174–5, 252–6

  Milton, Andrew Fletcher, Lord, 161, 174

  Milton, Caroline, Lady, 252

  Milton, Joseph Damer, Baron (later 1st Earl of Dorchester), 174–5, 252, 254, 256

  Mir Jafir, Nawab of Bengal, 236

  Mitford, Rev. William, 8

  Moccas, Herefordshire, 288–9

  model villages, 254

  Moggridge, Hal, 182

  Mollet, André and Gabriel, 158

  Montagu, Edward, 106, 295–6

  Montagu, Edward Hussey, 235

  Montagu, Elizabeth, 106–7, 178, 295–8, 308

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 92, 166

  Monticello, Virginia (USA), 311

  Moor Park, Hertfordshire, 97–8, 120, 122

  More, Hannah, 263, 298

  Morpeth Grammar School, 14

  Morris, Roger, 179

  Mostyn, Barbara, Lady, 34, 290n

  Mostyn, Sir Edward, 34

  Mostyn, Elizabeth, 157

  Mounford, James, 67

  Mount Stuart, Rothesay, 166

  Mountstuart, John Stuart, Viscount (later 1st Marquess of Bute), 244, 310

  Mowl, Timothy: Historic Gardens of Staffordshire, 251

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 270

  Mudge, Thomas, 292

  Nardini, Piero, 270

  Nash, John, 139, 141n, 255, 304, 307, 318

  Nautilus, HMS, 263

  Navestock, Essex, 183

  Nelson, William, 51

  Nesfield, William, 190

  Nevill, Ralph: Sporting Days and Sporting Ways, 309

  New Forest, Hampshire, 264–5

  New York: Central Park, 317

  Newcastle Courant, 4, 23

  Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of, 109, 117, 119, 142, 236, 238

  Newdigate, Sophia, 57

  Newman, Robert, 85

  Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire, 62, 92

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 274

  Nicholson, Sir Francis, 81

  Nicolay, Frederick, 220–1

  Nobbs, Thomas, 202

  North End House, London, 196

  North, Francis, Lord (later Earl of Guilford), 63–4

  North, Frederick, Lord: friendship with LB, 64, 202, 261; as Prime Minister, 234–5; attempts to resign (1777), 267

  Northampton, Charles Compton, 7th Earl of, 194

  Northampton, Spencer Compton, 8th Earl of, 161, 173, 194–7

  Northumberland, 7–10, 211–13

  Northumberland, Elizabeth, Duchess of (née Seymour), 42, 113, 211, 213–16

  Northumberland House, Charing Cross, 112

  Northumberland, Hugh Smithson (later Percy), 1st Duke of, 104, 113, 118, 211, 213, 216, 233, 243

  Nuneham Courtney, Oxfordshire, 312–13, 315

  Nunwick, Northumberland, 20, 23

  nurseries: development, 27–8; in London, 79–81; and popularity of American plants, 81

  Oakly Park, Ludlow, Shropshire, 233, 240–1

  Office of Woods & Forests, 304

  Office of Works, 88, 221, 304

  Ogilby, John: Britannia (and Pocket Guide), 25

  Oliphant, J., 78

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 317, 320

  Ord, Elizabeth, 19

  Ossory, Anne, Countess of (formerly Duchess of Grafton), 4

  Osterley Park, Middlesex, 102

  Owen, Nick, 18, 218n, 219

  Oxford, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of, 277

  Oxford, Edward Harley, 4th Earl of, 247

  Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of, 43

  Packington, Leicestershire, 67, 69–70, 92

  Paine, James, 124–5, 128, 176, 191, 215, 218n, 291, 294

  Painshill Park, Surrey, 229, 245, 290

  Pakenham, G.R.M., 234

  Palmerston, Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount, 173–4, 178, 183, 279, 281–2

  Paris, Treaty of (1763), 117, 150

  Park Place, Henley, 252

  Patoun, William, 201n

  Patshull Hall, Staffordshire, 191

  Paulton’s Park, Hampshire, 264, 265n

  Paxton, Sir Joseph, 2, 128n, 316–17

  Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph: The Book of Duck Decoys, 294

  Peisley, Bartholomew, Jr, 148

  Pelham, Charles, 270

  Pelham, Sophia (formerly Aufrere), 270–1

  Pembroke, Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of, 88, 179, 294

  Pendarves, Alexander, 136

  Penn, John, 34

  Pennystone, Thomas, 169

  Peper Harow, Surrey, 118, 208

  Percy, Lord Algernon, 214

  Percy Lodge, Iver, Buckinghamshire (Richings), 41, 113, 115–16, 214

  Percy, Thomas (later Bishop of Dromore), 214–16

  Perfect, John, 271–2

  Petre, Robert Edward, 9th Baron, 80

  Petty, Anne, 136

  Petty, Sir William, 136

  Petworth House and Park, Sussex: LB recommended to, 82; LB requests survey, 91; LB works at, 93–4, 108, 163; plan, 96; LB’s contract at, 97; lake, 104, 108–9

  Phibbs, John, 288

  Pickford, Joseph, 190

  Picturesque: style, 246, 285–7, 289–91, 315; controversy (1790s), 314; Hussey on, 318

  Pigot, George, Baron, 191, 208, 236

  Pigot, Sir Robert, 208

  Pirton Court, Worcestershire, 293

  Pitt, George (later 1st Baron Rivers), 35, 111

  Pitt, Hester see Chatham, Hester, Countess of

  Pitt, John, 54, 106

  Pitt, Penelope, 111

  Pitt, Robert, 252

  Pitt, Thomas (Chatham’s grandfather), 252

  Pitt, Thomas (Chatham’s nephew), 252

  Pitt, William, the elder see Chatham, 1st Earl of

  Pitt, William, the younger, 268–9, 292, 300, 307

  Plassey, battle of (1757), 236

  Polwarth, Alexander Hume, Viscount, 278

  Polwarth, Lady Amabel (née Grey), 119, 261, 278, 311

  Pope, Alexander, 41, 148, 177, 204, 246; ‘Epistle to Burlington’, 41

  Porchester, Henry Herbert, 1st Viscount, 294

  Porter’s Park, Shenley, Hertfordshire, 242

  Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of, 118, 211–12, 218, 220

  Portsmouth, Elizabeth, Countess of, 168–9, 254

  Potts, Robert, 47

  Powell, William, 275

  Powis, Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of, 240

  Pownoll, Captain Philemon, 176

  Preston, battle of (1715), 11n

  Price, Uvedale, 226, 289; An Essay on the Picturesque, 314–15

  Pride, Thomas, 149

  Prior Park, Bath, 54, 184

  Pynsent, Sir William, 177, 184

  Queen’s House, The see Buckingham House

  Radway Grange, Warwickshire, 63–5

  Ragley Park, Warwickshire, 70

&n
bsp; Raines (steward to William Constable), 229–32, 271

  Raleigh, Sir Walter, 256

  Ramsay, Allan, 119, 295

  Rand, Rev. Conway, 53

  Raymond, Sir Charles, 201

  Rayne, Rev. Thomas, 103

  Read, Benjamin, 85, 165, 199, 232

  Rebecca, Biagio, 169

  Redesdale, Northumberland, 7–9, 15

  Redgrave, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 152, 161, 181

  Reeve, Father Joseph, 177

  Repton, George Stanley, 307

  Repton, Humphry: eclipses LB, 2; and Corsham Court, 139; and Holkham Hall, 181; and Ashridge, 187; and Blaise Hamlet, 255; at Moccas, 289; Red Books, 292, 306–7; Henry Holland jr works with, 303; Henry Holland jr sends LB drawings to, 306; invents term landscape gardener, 306; working methods, 306–7; character, 307; death, 307; published books, 307; continues improvements after LB’s death, 309; and Picturesque controversy, 314

  Repton, John Adey, 307

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 143, 166, 213, 271

  Rhodes, Joshua, 110

  Rice, George, 289

  Rice, William, 158

  Richardson, Samuel, 50

  Richardson, Thomas, 179, 223, 224

  Richings, Buckinghamshire see Percy Lodge Richmond: deer park, 167; King’s garden and proposed palace, 201, 221–2; plan, 224

  Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of, 268

  Richmond, George, 284

  Richmond, Nathaniel, 98n, 163

  Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, 287

  Rigaud, Jacques, 44

  Ripley Castle, Yorkshire, 213

  Roberts, William, 42, 44, 47, 217

  Robinson, Sir Thomas, 142

  Robinson, William, 222

  Robson (Bond Street publisher), 314

  Robson, George, 212

  Robson, William, 14, 211–12

  Roche Abbey, Sandbeck, 285–6

  Roque, John, 25; Middlesex, 113–14, 116

  Rothley Park, Northumberland, 217–20, 316

  Rousham, Oxfordshire, 144–5

  Roxburghe, Robert Kerr, 1st Earl of, 8

  royal parks, 153–5

  Royal Society: and fruit-growing, 16

  Rust, James (Peggy’s husband), 6, 300

  Rust, Margaret (LB’s daughter; ‘Peggy’): marriage, 6, 300; birth, 155; education, 199; visits brother Lance, 227; collects exotic birds, 243; correspondence with father, 252–3, 268–9, 280–1; after father’s death, 299; death, 303

  Rutland, John Manners, 3rd Duke of, 292

  St Ives, Huntingdonshire, 198

  St James’s Park, London, 140–1, 153–4, 304

  St James’s Square, London, 117, 194

  St Leonard’s Hill, Windsor Forest, 214

  St Martin-in-the-Fields church, London, 97

  St Quinton, Sir William, 4th Baronet (of Scampston), 234

  Sandbeck, South Yorkshire, 268, 284–6

  Sandby, Paul, 155, 209

  Sandby, Thomas, 155

  Sanderson, John, 135, 138, 163

  Sandleford Priory, Berkshire, 294–7

  Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, 72, 80, 225–6, 300

  Sandwich, John Montagu, 5th Earl of (earlier Viscount Hinchingbrooke), 302

  Saratoga, battles of (1777), 267

  Savage, HMS, 235

  Saxe-Coburg, Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of, 240–1

  Scampston, Yorkshire, 234–5

  Scarbrough, Richard Lumley, 4th Earl of, 284–6

  Schaub, Lady, 61

  Sclater, Sir Thomas, 16

  Scott, Sir George Gilbert, 129

  Scott, Sir Walter, 312

  Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland, 28

  Sebright family, 106

  Sebright, Sir John, 107, 184

  Seeley, Benton, 51

  Selwyn family, 223

  Serle family (of Testwood), 173, 265

  Serpentine, The, Hyde Park, London, 133

  Seven Years War (1756–63), 116–17, 119, 143

  Shafto family, 23

  Shafto, Jenison, 235, 237

  Shakespeare, William, 68

  Sharington, Sir William, 291

  Sharp, Thomas, Archdeacon of Northumberland, 24

  Sharpham House, Devon, 176–7

  Sheffield, Sir Charles, 140

  Shelburne, Francis Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of, 161

  Shelburne, John Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of, 136–7

  Shelburne, Sophia, Countess (née Carteret), 183

  Shelburne, William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 137, 183

  Shenstone, William, 75, 119

  Shepheard, Sam, 191–2

  Sherborne Castle and Park, Dorset, 256–60

  Sheridan, Elizabeth (née Linley), 270

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 262; The Duenna, 270

  sheriffs, 225–6

  shooting laws, 219–20

  Shortgrove, Essex, 152

  Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess of (‘Bess of Hardwick’), 123

  Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, 188

  Signor Fido (greyhound), 53

  Sion Hill, 98n, 118, 245, 311

  Skurray, Marmaduke, 100

  Sledmere, East Yorkshire, 271–3

  Sleter, Francesco, 49

  Sloane, Sir Hans, 264

  Smeaton, John, 31n

  Smith family (of Buckinghamshire), 25

  Smith, Boys, 275

  Smith, Francis, 69, 85, 89

  Smith, Rev. Joseph, 204

  Smith, Richard (of Preston Bissett), 34

  Smith, Thomas (of Derby), 124–5

  Smith, William (Francis’s son), 89

  Smiths of Warwick (builders), 48, 67, 69, 71, 84, 90, 107, 292

  Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, 141–3, 273

  Somerset, Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of (earlier Earl of Hertford), 112–13

  Somerset, Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of, 94, 112-13, 147

  Somerset, Elizabeth, Duchess of (née Percy), 112

  Somerset, Frances, Duchess of (née Thynne; then Hertford), 112–14, 118, 135, 213

  South Lodge, Enfield, 106

  Southcote, Philip, 69, 89

  Southill, Bedfordshire, 278, 303

  Spalding, Lincolnshire, 37

  Sparrow (Harewood gardener), 283

  Spectator (magazine), 81

  Speed, Henrietta Jane, 61, 144

  Speed, John: Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, 25

  Speed, Colonel Samuel, 42, 46, 51

  Spence, Joseph, 246

  Spencer House, Green Park, London, 178

  Spencer, John, 1st Earl, 178, 183

  Spencer, Margaret Georgina, Countess (née Poyntz), 178

  Spring Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire, 88, 160

  Spyers (or Spires), Jonathan: home at Twickenham, 82; surveys Blenheim, 146; as LB’s regular draughtsman, 164, 171; surveys Tottenham Park, 181; delayed survey of Fenstanton, 198; and Wallington plans, 217; surveys Longford Castle, 291; surveys Belvoir Castle, 292; and LB’s lost drawings, 306

  Spyers (or Spires), Joshua, 82

  Staffordshire, 185–6, 188–91

  Stamford, Harry Grey, 4th Earl of, 118, 119

  Stamford, Lincolnshire, 100–1

  Stanhope, Elizabeth, Countess (née Dormer), 262

  Stanhope, Philip, 2nd Earl, 108

  Stanley, Hans, 264–5

  Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy, 43

  Stirtloe House, Huntingdonshire, 303

  Stocking, Thomas, 139

  Stoke Park, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire: John Penn owns, 34; Lady Cobham inherits, 43; Temple of Friendship, 48, 50; Lady Cobham moves to in widowhood, 59, 62; LB works on, 60, 318; and Gray’s ‘Elegy’, 61; LB leaves, 76; LB visits, 92; sold on Lady Cobham’s death, 144; Gothic at, 287

  Stoke Place, Buckinghamshire, 161

  Stourhead, Wiltshire, 133

  Stowe, Buckinghamshire: LB appointed head gardener, 38–9, 44, 46; extent, 39–41; staff and organisation, 42, 47;
military garden, 43–4, 146; Temples of Ancient Virtue and of British Worthies, 44; garden plan, 45; Gibbs works at, 47–50; LB as Clerk of Works, 47, 49–50; Gothic Temple, 49–50, 65; Queen’s Temple (‘Lady’s Building’), 49–50; Boycott Pavilions, 51, 60; LB and Bridget’s life at, 52; statues and temples, 52–3, 56; Grecian Valley, 55–7, 59–60; Captain Grenvillle’s column, 56; Cobham monument, 57–9; Long Room, 57, 139; Grenville inherits, 59–60; lake, 133

  Strandrick, John, 27

  Stratfield Saye, Hampshire, 111–12

  Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, 82, 287

  Stroud, Dorothy: and LB’s letters, 234; on Milton Abbas, 254–5; Capability Brown, 2–3, 72, 179, 204, 218n, 319

  Stubbs, George, 74, 116, 141, 208; Mares and Foals (painting), 207–8; A Hound Coursing a Stag (painting), 208; Antinous (painting), 208

  Studley Royal, Yorkshire, 285, 287

  Stukeley, William, 30, 148

  Styche Manor, Shropshire, 238

  Suffolk, James Howard, 3rd Earl of, 168

  Summerson, Sir John, 3

  surveying: methods, 23

  Surveyor-General or Controller of royal gardens, 304

  Suttons (seedsmen), 309n

  Swallowfield Park, Berkshire, 252

  Swinburne family, 12

  Swinney, Sidney, 180, 192–3

  Switzer, Stephen: and William Joyce, 23; LB’s supposed meeting with, 28; influenced by Taverner, 35; and Grimsthorpe Castle, 36; garden design theories, 42; influence on Greening, 71; serves London and Wise, 79; influence on Thomas Wright, 207; Ichnographia Rustica (earlier The Nobleman, Gentleman and Gardener’s Recreation), 17–18, 22, 36, 120; Practical Fruit Garden, 167; The Practical Husbandman, 271

  Swynnerton Hall, Staffordshire, 190

  Sykes, Christopher, 272–3

  Sykes, Elizabeth (née Tatton), 272

  Sykes, Rev. Mark (‘Parson’), 272

  Sykes, Richard, 271–2

  Sykes, Sir Tatton, 271

  Syon House and Park, Middlesex, 95, 98n, 112–16, 212, 245

  Talacre, Prestatyn, Clwyd, 290n

  Talbot, John Ivory, 291

  Talman, William, 124

  Tancred, Thomas, 265

  Taverner, John: Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Fruite, 35, 108

  Taylor, Sir Robert, 176

  Telford, Thomas, 10n

  Temple, Henry, 173

  Temple, Mary, Lady (née Knapp), 43

  Temple Newsam, Yorkshire, 163, 191–2, 213, 268

  Temple, Sir Richard, 3rd Bart, 42

  Temple, Richard Temple-Grenville, Earl, 43, 57n, 59–60, 117, 194

  Temple, Sir William, 245

  Terrick, Richard, Bishop of London, 81n

  Testwood, Hampshire, 172–3, 265

  Thames, River, 81, 94–5, 103–4, 144, 150

  theodolites, 23

  Thomond, Percy Wyndham O’Brien, Earl of, 152

  Thomson, James: on Hertfords, 114, 214; The Seasons, 75, 77, 103

 

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