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Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire, 268
Tixall Hall, Staffdordshire, 188–9
Tong Castle, Staffordshire, 190–1
Torrington, George Byng, 4th Viscount, 278
Tottenham Park, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, 181, 183, 185–6
Townsend, William, 148
Tracy, Thomas Charles, 6th Viscount (‘Baron Tracey’), 179
Travis, Mrs (of Chatsworth), 126–7
Treasury garden, London, 153
trees: cultivation, 16–17; LB’s interest in, 17, 230, 273–4; bought from nurserymen, 79–80; planting at Sledmere, 272–3
Trent & Mersey Canal, 188
Trent, River, 188, 190
Trentham, Staffordshire, 161, 190–1, 194, 268, 317
Turner, Edward, 71
Turner (Ickworth gardener), 235
Turner, J.M.W., 284
Turner, William, 150
Ugbrooke, Devon, 176–7, 189
Uglow, Jenny, 189
United States of America: Olmsted’s work in, 317, 320; see also American War of Independence
Upper Ossory see Ossory
Upton House, 64–5
Vachell, Colonel William, 1569
Valentines, Ilford, Essex, 201
Vanbrugh, Sir John, 28, 36, 44, 56, 79, 145–7, 236–9
Van Loo, Jean-Baptiste, 42
Vanneck, Sir Gerard, 298
Varley, John, 284
Vaughan, Wilmot, 176
Veigel, Eva Maria see Garrick, Eva Maria
Venour, Parson (of Wellesbourne), 129
Verro, Antonio, 101
Vickers, William, 127
Vile (carpenter), 292
Vilet, J., 215
Virginia Water, Surrey, 155
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet, 311
Vyne, The, near Basingstoke, 84
Vyner family, 25, 33
Wade, John, 73–4
Wakefield Lawn, Buckinghamshire, 35n, 72–4, 92, 164, 207
Walcot Hall, Shropshire, 236
Waldegrave, John, 3rd Earl, 183
Walker, Rev. Richard (‘Frog’), 274
Wallington estate, Northumberland: George Brown works on, 14, 19–20, 217, 218n, 3 16; Sir Walter Blackett at, 16, 19–20; Garrett at, 20, 217;Joyce surveys, 22–3; LB revisits, 217; LB’s supposed improvements, 218n; Rothley drawings displayed at, 219n; Sir Walter’s absence, 220; Arthur Young on, 316
Wallop family (Earls of Portsmouth), 169
Walls, Will, 73–4
Walpole, Horace: on LB’s death, 4; on LB at Warwick Castle, 69; on price of cedar of Lebanon, 80; at Strawberry Hill, 82; on Warwick Castle, 89; on Anson’s Moor Park, 98; on LB’s work at Ragley, 118; on improvements to Chatsworth, 125; on Chatham’s health, 196; and LB at Hampton Court, 206; on Euston Hall lawn, 207; on William Chambers, 244; and Gothic, 287
Walpole, Sir Robert (1st Earl of Orford), 140
Walpole, Thomas, 196
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 8
Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton: The Compleat Angler, 121–2, 131, 133, 144
Ward, Rev. Richard, 7
Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, 241–2, 290–1
Warwick Castle, 20, 49, 67, 69, 89–91
Warwick Priory, 69
Watts, William: Views of Seats, 243
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited, 319
Wayet family, 30, 37, 268
Wayet, Bridget (LB’s wife) see Brown, Bridget
Wayet, David (Bridget’s father), 30
Wayet, John (Bridget’s brother), 30–2, 95
Wayet, Mary (John’s wife), 30, 37
Wayet, Mary (née Kelsall; Bridget’s mother), 30
Webb, Philip Carteret, 141
Wedgwood, Iris, 15
Wedgwood, Josiah, 157, 190, 215n, 311
Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, 212
Weldon, Jonathan, 27
Welford, Richard: Men of Mark ‘Twixt Tyne and Tweed, 15
Wellington, Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of, 111
West, Benjamin, 154, 169, 201n
West, Gilbert, 4, 51–2, 54, 106
West, Maria (née Temple; Molly), 43, 106
West, Richard, 43
West Sheen, Richmond, Surrey, 222–3
West Wickham, Kent, 54, 106
West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 72
Weston Park, Staffordshire, 183, 190
Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount, 134–5
Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount, 135
Whateley, Thomas, 98
Whigs and Whiggism, 109
Whistler, Simon, 50n
Whitbread, Samuel, 278
White Sorel (horse), 20, 159
White, Thomas, 163–4, 229, 232, 272–3; A Plan of Alterations Designed for Burton Constable, 228
Whitehead, Paul, 53n
Whitehead, William, 313
Whitley Beaumont, West Yorkshire, 291
Whitridge (house), Kirkharle, 95
Whittington, Richard, Lord Mayor of London, 83
Whitwell, Anne, 168
Wilderness House see Hampton Court
Wilkin, Thomas, 216
Willes, Sir John, 107
William III (of Orange), King, 20, 158–9, 168, 230
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 155
Williams-Wynne, Charlotte, Lady (née Grenville), 289–90
Williams-Wynne, Sir Watkin, 289–90
Williamson, John, 79–80, 93, 114, 164
Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (Lord Chief Justice), 226
Wilson, Richard, 122, 125, 143
Wilton House, Wiltshire, 84, 290
Wimbledon House, 178–9
Wimpole Hall and Park, Cambridgeshire, 5, 58, 164, 199, 277, 285, 311
Winckles (Tottenham bailiff), 181, 186
Windsor Castle: garden, 152, 154–5
Wise, Henrietta (née Holland; Colonel Lancelot’s daughter), 304
Wise, Henry: family lives at Warwick Priory, 69; marriage, 79; as royal gardener, 79; LB follows tradition of, 85; and Wrest Park, 120; designs at Chatsworth, 124; as courtier, 141; work at Blenheim, 146; as Deputy Ranger of St James’s Park, 153; home at Hampton Court, 157, 159, 202
Wise, Henry (Henrietta Holland’s husband), 304
Wise, Patience (née Bankes), 79
Witham, River (Lincolnshire), 30–1
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, 303
Wodehouse, Sir Armine, 160–1
Woffington, Peg, 203
Wolfe, General James, 119
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 157–8
Wooburn, Surrey, 89
Wood, Charles H., 125
Wood, James (Huntingdon nurseryman), 81, 164, 274
Wood, Robert and James Dawkins: The Ruins of Palmyra, 102
Woodchester, Gloucestershire, 291
Woodhouse, Thomas, 296
Woodman, Henry, 27–8, 81
Woods, Richard, 99n, 133, 290–1
Woodson, John, 126
Woodstock Manor, Oxfordshire, 146
Woodward, Christopher, 286; In Ruins, 287
Woodward (surveyor of Milton Abbas), 254
Woolhope Field Club, 289
Wordsworth, William, 131n
Worsley, Sir Richard, 283–4
Worsley, Seymour Dorothy, Lady (née Fleming), 283–4
Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, 36–8, 54, 82, 92, 134; lake, 134; duck decoy, 293
Wren, Sir Christopher, 156, 159, 202, 262, 276
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, 58, 119–20, 261, 277–8
Wright, Thomas, 141n, 188, 207, 217, 245, 293
Wroxton, 63–4
Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, 187
Wyatt, James, 187, 252, 296, 307
Wycombe Abbey (earlier Loaches), Buckinghamshire, 161
Wynnstay, near Wrexham, Shropshire, 289, 317
Yarborough, Charles Pelham, 1st Earl of, 284
Yarborough, Henrietta, Countess of (née Pelham), 284
Yonge, Mrs (of Eton), 155
Yorke, Elizabeth, 1888
Yorke, Philip see Hardwicke, 2nd Earl of Young, Arthur, 107n, 118, 166, 217; Annals of Agriculture, 316; Six Weeks’ Tour through the Southern Counties, 291
Zoffany, Johann, 97; A View of Hampton House with Garrick Writing (painting), 204–5
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