William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development...
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(1893–1980), Canadian physicist Beverley Shenstone, Canadian aerodynamicist Clare Shenstone, English artist William Shenstone (1714–1763), English poet and landscape...
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The Leasowes (section Shenstone (1743 to 1763))
means "rough pasture land". Developed between 1743 and 1763 by poet William Shenstone as a ferme ornée, the garden is one of the most admired early examples...
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William Ashwell Shenstone FIC FRS (1 December 1850 in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England – 3 February 1908 in Mullion, Cornwall) was a chemist, schoolmaster...
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1740s to the 1760s. At its heart lay the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone, who lived at The Leasowes in Halesowen to the west of Birmingham...
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first natural landscape gardens in England. The 18th-century poet William Shenstone designed the garden, beginning works in 1743 and continuing until...
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the typographer John Baskerville, the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone and the architects James Wyatt and Samuel Wyatt. Although the Midlands...
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headmaster. Shenstone (Black) – named after 18th-century poet, Old Silhillian, classmate and lifelong friend of Jago, William Shenstone. Shenstone went to...
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name to Solihull's famous shopping centre. During this time poets William Shenstone and Richard Jago attended Solihull School, where today, two houses...
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1748 by Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough to the fanatical gardener William Shenstone: "Nature has been so remarkably kind this last Autumn to adorn my...
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a lifelong friendship with William Shenstone. In 1732, he went up to University College, Oxford and while there Shenstone made him acquainted with other...
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Shenstone is a village and civil parish in The Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England, located between Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield. The parish...
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encouraged to publish the work by his friends Samuel Johnson and the poet William Shenstone, who also found and contributed ballads. Percy did not treat the folio...
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Maffei, Italian archaeologist, playwright, and critic (b. 1675) 1763 – William Shenstone, English poet and gardener (b. 1714) 1768 – George Dance the Elder...
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to an English poet in the circuit, a tall stone urn dedicated to William Shenstone. A further climb through woods brought one to open grassland and another...
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were William Blackstone, Richard Jago, William Hawkins: and William Shenstone, who became a close friend. Graves later wrote Recollections of Shenstone. The...
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Partnership. The poet William Shenstone lived at The Leasowes and was a near neighbour of the Lyttelton family at Hagley Hall. Shenstone garden at The Leasowes...
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English poet and playwright. She belonged to the Shenstone Circle of writers gathered round William Shenstone in the English Midlands. She later explored subjects...
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Coterie, a group of poet friends including the gardener and poet William Shenstone, who had developed his own ferme ornée at The Leasowes in Halesowen...
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the National Trust. In about 1750 the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone stayed at Mickleton Manor, and it was he who inspired the planting...
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deputation of London publishers and booksellers, led by Thomas Davies, William Strahan and Thomas Cadell, to provide short biographies for a standard...
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him during his early years. He made the acquaintance of the poet William Shenstone, who lived nearby, and was encouraged by him to write poetry. In 1764...
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Allen Goodrich Shenstone, OBE, MC (July 27, 1893 – February 16, 1980) was a Canadian physicist. He earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from...
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Farm, made by Philip Southcote, who bought the property in 1734. William Shenstone's garden at The Leasowes was also a ferme ornée. Marie Antoinette made...
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November 10 – Mathieu Tillet, French botanist (d. 1791) November 18 – William Shenstone, English poet and landscape gardener (d. 1763) November 24 – Thomas...
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by William Shenstone) and some Anglican chant. But he also composed some large-scale music such as the five-act opera Caractacus (libretto by William Mason)...
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highlighting the differences between painting and landscape gardening, William Shenstone has been credited with coining the term ‘landscape gardening’. Unlike...
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in a variety of towns around England and was described by the poet William Shenstone as "the most volatile of all creatures that have not wings". He is...
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poet, and a member of the Shenstone circle of writers that gathered around the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone. Little is known of Hylton's...
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best-known poems. Among his friends and neighbours were the poets William Shenstone, Richard Jago and George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton. Later he...
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