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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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