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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