"today. A partial list of the landscapes he designed or worked on: More than 30 of the gardens are open to the public. Capability Brown Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known with the byname Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as ""the last of the great English 18th century artists to be accorded his due"" and ""England's greatest gardener"". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure. He was nicknamed ""Capability"" because he would tell his clients that their property had ""capability"" for improvement."
"of the aristocracy and gentry; it showed that the owner could afford to keep land that was not being used for a building, or for food production. In the early 18th century, landscape gardening for the aristocracy entered a golden age, under the direction of William Kent and Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown. They refined the English landscape garden style with the design of natural, or ""romantic"", estate settings for wealthy Englishmen. Brown, remembered as ""England's greatest gardener"", designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure. His influence was so great that the contributions to the English garden made by his"
"of the English landscape garden was Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown (1716–1783) who began his career in 1740 as a gardener at Stowe under Charles Bridgeman, then succeeded William Kent in 1748. Brown's contribution was to simplify the garden by eliminating geometric structures, alleys, and parterres near the house and replacing them with rolling lawns and extensive views out to isolated groups of trees, making the landscape seem even larger. ""He sought to create an ideal landscape out of the English countryside."" He created artificial lakes and used dams and canals to transform streams or springs into the illusion that a river"
"overlooked; even Kent's apologist Horace Walpole allowed that Kent had followed ""a very able master"". Lancelot Brown was born as a land agent's and chambermaid's fifth child in the village of Kirkharle, Northumberland, and educated at a school in Cambo until he was 16. Brown’s father William Brown had been Sir William Loraine’s land agent and his mother Ursula (née Hall) had been in service at Kirkharle Hall. His eldest brother John became the estate surveyor and later married Sir William's daughter. Elder brother George became a mason-architect. After school Lancelot worked as the head gardener's apprentice at Sir William"
"Kirkharle's most famous son is Capability Brown the notable landscape gardener. Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (bapt.1716 -1783) was born in Kirkharle and baptised in St Wilfrid's Church, Kirkharle, on 30th August 1716. His actual birthdate is not know. He was the fifth of the six children of William Brown, a yeoman farmer and Ursula, née Hall, who had also worked in the big house on the Kirkharle estate. Lancelot attended the village school in nearby Cambo until the age of 16. In 1732, the young Brown began work at the Kirkharle estate, learning many skills in gardening, planting & land reclamation,"
"Lancelot Browne Lancelot Browne (c.1545–1605) was an English physician. He was a native of York. He matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, in May 1559, where he was a few months behind William Gilbert, with whom he associated in later life. He graduated B.A. in 1562–3, and M.A. in 1566. In 1567 he was elected fellow of Pembroke Hall; in 1570 received the license of the university to practise physic. He took a leading part in the opposition to the new statutes of the university promulgated in 1572, and in 1573 was made proctor. He was created M.D. in 1576,"
"in London, England, where he resided at the time; it was later published in the United States. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. In 1858 he became the first published African-American playwright, and often read from this work on the lecture circuit. Following the Civil War, in 1867 he published what is considered the first history of African Americans in the Revolutionary War. He was among the first writers inducted to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, established in 2013. A public school was named for him in Lexington, Kentucky. Brown"
"gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a ""black page boy"". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote. The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850). Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from whose"
"and were realized in the Anglo-Chinese garden, The English garden usually included a lake, sweeps of gently rolling lawns set against groves of trees, and recreations of classical temples, Gothic ruins, bridges, and other picturesque architecture, designed to recreate an idyllic pastoral landscape. The work of Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown was particularly influential. By the end of the 18th century the English garden was being imitated by the French landscape garden, and as far away as St. Petersburg, Russia, in Pavlovsk, the gardens of the future Emperor Paul. It also had a major influence on the form of the public parks"
"and another in the village of South Hinksey, Oxfordshire. He is mentioned in Robert Burns's cantata ""The Jolly Beggars"" as an inspiring figure. The old soldier singing the air ""I Am a Son of Mars"" says: ""Yet let my country need me, with Elliot [sic] to head me, / I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of a drum."" George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, PC, KB (25 December 1717 – 6 July 1790) was a British Army officer who served in three major wars during the eighteenth century. He rose to distinction"
"by John Joseph Bennett. He served as President of the Linnean Society from 1849 to 1853. Brown died at 17 Dean Street, Soho Square in London, on 10 June 1858. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Brown's name is commemorated in the Australia herb genus ""Brunonia"" as well as numerous Australian species such as ""Eucalyptus brownii"", ""Banksia brownii"" and the moss Brown's Tetrodontium Moss (""Tetrodontium brownianum""), a species which he discovered growing at Roslin near Edinburgh whilst still a student. The plant can still be found at the site of its discovery. Passing through the suburb of"
"John Gerard's ""Great Herbal"" (first edition, 1597). A dictionary he compiled to the works of Avicenna was unpublished, but was used much later by Edmund Castell for his ""Lexicon Heptaglotton"", and Browne is mentioned in the introduction. He collaborated with Thomas Blundeville, on ""The Theoriques of the Seuen Planets"" (1602),an astronomy book that also published research of William Gilbert on magnetism, and contained work by Henry Briggs and Edward Wright. He was father-in-law to William Harvey, who married his daughter Elizabeth, and father of Galen Browne, also a physician. Lancelot Browne Lancelot Browne (c.1545–1605) was an English physician. He was"
"Thomas Browne (officer of arms) Thomas Browne (1708–1780), Garter Principal King of Arms, the second son of John Browne of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, became Bluemantle Pursuivant in 1737, Lancaster Herald in 1743, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms in 1761, and Garter in 1774 until his death. Browne was the most eminent land surveyor in the kingdom, and was called ""Sense Browne,"" to distinguish him from his contemporary, Lancelot Brown, who was usually called Capability Brown. At first he resided at his seat of Little Wimley near Stevenage, Hertfordshire, which ""he received with his wife."" He later moved to Camville Place,"
"to Lancelot (Capability) Brown. In 1823, Edward Lapidge was finalist in a competition to design a set of new buildings for King’s College, Cambridge. In 1835 he was a finalist again in a competition to design the Fitzwilliam Museum. His completed works include Hampton Wick Church (1829), the rebuilding of Hampton Church (1830), St Mary’s Church, Putney (1836) and the enlargement of Fulham Church (1839). In 1852 he designed Reigate Police Station. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1808 and 1850. He died in 1860 and is buried at Hampton Wick Church. The church is in the classical style,"
"Lamb of Axwell Park, County Durham and the couple had nine children – six sons and three daughters. In 1880 Nugent inherited his father’s property Calverleigh Court at Tiverton and his family moved from Guyers. From about 1881 until 1895 Captain Lancelot Charles Brown (1825-1895) resided with his wife Sarah Maria at Guyers House. He was the great grandson of Lancelot “Capability” Brown (1716-1783) the famous British landscape architect. After he died in 1895 Henry Stratton Coles bought the house. Henry Stratton Coles (1864-1914) was a retired banker in Bath. In 1888 he married Edith Maude Symons daughter of Thomas"
"Kirkharle Kirkharle (otherwise Kirk Harle) is a hamlet in the county of Northumberland in Northern England located about west of the town of Morpeth, just to the west of the crossroads of the A696 and B6342 roads. It is famous as the birthplace of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the early eighteenth century. Kirkharle Hall was a country house at Kirkharle, the former seat of the Loraine family, now much reduced and in use as a farmhouse. The estate church is dedicated to St Wilfrid (634-709AD) and is Grade 1 listed, with most of the building dating from 1336. A mile"
"by the Royal Mail in 2012 to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Hablot Knight Browne Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Of Huguenot ancestry, Hablot Knight Browne was born in England, in Lambeth (near London) on Kennington Lane. He was the fourteenth of Catherine and William Loder Browne's fifteen children. According to biographer, Valerie Browne Lester, Phiz was in fact the illegitimate son of his putative eldest sister"
"and its warm winter climate to the attention of the British aristocracy with ""Travels through France and Italy"", written in 1765. At about the same time, a Scottish doctor, John Brown, became famous for prescribing what he called climato-therapy, a change in climate, to cure a variety of diseases including tuberculosis, known then as consumption. The French historian Paul Gonnet wrote that, as a result, Nice was filled with ""a colony of pale and listless English women and listless sons of nobility near death"". In 1834, a British nobleman and politician named Henry Peter Brougham, First Baron Brougham and Vaux,"
"then sold it to Lazare Letourneau who in turn sold it to Hezekiah Robinson in 1822. Robinson immediately renamed Lewis Falls to Waterloo after the famous battle in which Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. The name Waterloo was suggested by his Father-in-law -Judge Knowlton. Hezekiah Robinson built ""The Old Stone Store"" in 1829 at the corner of Main Street and Ellis.He donated the land for the first Church of England built in 1843 and his widow donated Robinson Park in 1868 plus the land for the French school.In 1843, Waterloo became the county seat replacing Frost Village. In 1861, Asa Belnap"
"George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, PC, KB (25 December 1717 – 6 July 1790) was a British Army officer who served in three major wars during the eighteenth century. He rose to distinction during the Seven Years' War when he fought in Germany and participated in the British attacks on Belle Île (France) and Cuba. Eliott is most notable for his command of the Gibraltar garrison during the Great Siege of Gibraltar, which lasted from 1779 and 1783, during the American War of Independence. He was celebrated for his successful defence of the"
"that there is no other age or country of the world (but ours), in which such genius could have been so degraded!"" Lord Byron (1788–1824) was the most popular poet of his day, a major figure of the English Romantic movement, and an international celebrity. Although Hazlitt never met Byron, he had been following his career for years. Besides reviewing his poetry and some of his prose, Hazlitt had contributed to ""The Liberal"", a journal Byron helped establish but later abandoned. """"Intensity"""", writes Hazlitt, ""is the great and prominent distinction of Lord Byron's writing. ... He grapples with his subject,"
"the 18th century fashions changed to favour a more informal type of garden layout. Credit for designing the informal gardens at Eaton Hall has been given to Lancelot ""Capability"" Brown. Although one of Brown's documents dated 1764 shows that payment was made to him by the estate, it also notes that a plan for the garden had been drawn up by William Emes. From this, Marion Mako concludes that, as Brown was an engineer as well as a landscape gardener, the payment was for an engineering project rather than for landscaping. Emes had been influenced by Brown, although he had"
"gloves, Madam, their father-in-law, Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead!"""". Brown was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul, the parish church of Brown's small estate at Fenstanton Manor. He left an estate of approximately ₤40,000, which included property in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire. His eldest daughter Bridget married the architect Henry Holland. Brown sent two of his sons to Eton. One of them, Lancelot Brown the younger, became the MP for Huntingdon. His son John joined the Royal Navy and rose to become an admiral. Many of Capability Brown's parks and gardens may still be visited"
"Basil Brown Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was a self-taught archaeologist and astronomer who in 1939 discovered and excavated a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ""one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time"". Although described as an amateur archaeologist, Brown's career as a paid excavation employee for a provincial museum spanned more than thirty years. Basil Brown was born in 1888 in Bucklesham, east of Ipswich, to George Brown (1863-1932) and Charlotte Wait (ca. 1854-1931), daughter of John Wait of Great Barrington, Gloucestershire. His father was a farmer, wheelwright"
"Hablot Knight Browne Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Of Huguenot ancestry, Hablot Knight Browne was born in England, in Lambeth (near London) on Kennington Lane. He was the fourteenth of Catherine and William Loder Browne's fifteen children. According to biographer, Valerie Browne Lester, Phiz was in fact the illegitimate son of his putative eldest sister Kate and Captain Nicholas Hablot of Napoleon's Imperial Guard. There is some uncertainty regarding the exact date"
"the age of 42 years, and 1 day, making him younger than all of his successors. He was also the longest-serving Prime Minister of the 19th century. In London Liverpool Street Station and Liverpool Road, Islington are named for Lord Liverpool. The Canadian town of Hawkesbury, Ontario, the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia, Liverpool, New South Wales and the Liverpool River in the Northern Territory of Australia were also named after Lord Liverpool. Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, (7 June 1770 – 4 December 1828) was a British statesman and Prime"
"Thomas Brown (engineer) Thomas Brown (1772 – 30 January 1850) was an English surveyor, civil engineer, businessman and landowner. Born at Disley in Cheshire, he had interests in coal-mining, particularly in the Haughton and Hyde areas of Greater Manchester, as well as lime burning and mineral extraction interests. He owned land at Disley, Manchester and Heaton Norris and he lived at Ardwick Green, Manchester. He is best known as the resident engineer for the construction of the Peak Forest Canal and the Peak Forest Tramway and in 1793 he made the initial survey of their routes. Following the resignation of"
"Stanley George Browne Stanley George Browne (8 December 1907 – 20 January 1986), also called ""Bonganga"" by the community members with whom he worked, was a British medical missionary and leprologist known for his work and his many research achievements throughout the 20th century in the Belgian Congo, Nigeria, and India including his early use of Dapsone. He received numerous awards throughout his academic and professional career. He is also known as an academic for his early publications surrounding his findings of leprosy of which he published about 150 articles and five books. Browne was born on 8 December 1907"
"his memory in 1870. Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names. Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble"
"Thomas Brown (loyalist) Thomas ""Burnfoot"" Brown (27 May 1750 – 3 August 1825) was a British Loyalist, during the American Revolution. Intending to become a quiet colonial landowner, he lived, instead, a turbulent and combative career. During the American Revolutionary War he played a key role for the Loyalist cause in the Province of Georgia. Following the overthrow of British rule and the Patriot victory in the Revolution, Brown was exiled first to British East Florida, and later to St. Vincent's Island in the Caribbean. Thomas Brown was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, England on 27 May 1750 into a prosperous"
"to the captaincy of a merchant vessel. Comparatively little is known of Brown's early life, and it has been suggested that he was illegitimate and took his mother's surname and that his father's surname was actually Gannon. After ten years on the Atlantic, where he developed his skills as a seaman and reached the level of captain, he was press-ganged into a British ship. British impressment of American sailors was one of the primary issues leading to the War of 1812. During the Napoleonic Wars, Brown is said to have escaped the galley and scuttled the vessel. However, the French"
"named after him. They found gold at the Leech River, causing much excitement, but the results were limited to $60,000. Brown attributed more importance to their discovery of coal in the Comox Valley.. He took an interest in Chinook jargon. With Edward Whymper, brother of Frederick, he attempted to penetrate the inland ice of Greenland in 1867, and made many discoveries concerning its nature which were later confirmed by Robert Peary. He traveled in the Barbary States of North Africa, and became the foremost British authority on Morocco almost by accident, having gone there for a holiday but having found"
"eminent botanist and president of the Royal Society. Five years after this purchase Banks gave Smith his full support in founding the Linnean Society, and he became one of the first Honorary Members of the new society. The society has numbered many prominent scientists amongst its fellows. One such was the botanist Robert Brown, who was president (1849-1853); he named the cell nucleus and discovered Brownian motion. In 1854 Charles Darwin was elected a fellow; he is undoubtedly the most illustrious scientist ever to appear on the membership rolls of the society. Another famous fellow was biologist Thomas Huxley, who"