He was an architect and furniture designer, a painter, and an incredibly important landscape architect (he was one of the originators of natural landscape design and is considered by many historians to be the father of modern garden design). He inherited his wealth from his family and used his house as a place to teach people how to drive horse carriages. There are scattered mature trees within the park, shelter belts along the north and north-east sides, and an area of woodland, called Pond Wood, to the south of the westernmost lake, much as shown on the 1854 OS map. Francis and Grisold Clifford had a son, Henry (b.1592), and a daughter, Margaret, who married Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford (executed 1641). The formal plantation to the west was turned into a pleasure garden. He died in 1900 and his son, Francis Denison (b.1864), kept up the pattern, hosting expensive royal visits and shooting parties. Architect: To try to get more specific results, I searched his name and then author. The Iron Age barrows closely resembled those on the continent, especially in the Champagne and Ardennes regions of France and Belgium. Both Raincliffe Woods, and the former Raincliffe School, were also named after the title bestowed on him in 1887. The heart of the estates was Londesborough which was bought by Lord Albert Denison in 1850. Some outlying Cavendish properties, including Latimer (Buckinghamshire) and Keighley were settled on him, and he also inherited the Holker (Lancashire) estate from his uncle Lord George Augustus Cavendish, to whom it had passed from the Lowther baronets of Marske. Search over 400,000 listed places Overview Official List Entry Comments and Photos Overview Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1258289 Date first listed: 08-Jun-1973 List Entry Name: LONDESBOROUGH LODGE The main aims of the Society are: Past Seat / Home of: Sir George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, late 16th-early 17th centuries. They restored the pleasure gardens and the lakes that had silted up and probably replanted some of the trees in the old avenues. The marchioness of Conyngham was the daughter of a Leeds banker who had acquired considerable estates especially around Seamer, near Scarborough. On Burlingtons death in 1753, the estate passed to his son-in-law, the future 4th Duke of Devonshire. Albert Denison was the son of the marchioness of Conyngham, mistress of George IV (he was born Albert Conyngham). Sadly Charlotte died at Londesborough only a year later at the age of 23. LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING. Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire | The National Archives This information will help us make improvements to the website.
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