The Cockerell Family Sezincote’s association with the Cockerells and the East India Company began in 1795 when Colonel John Cockerell (1752 – 1798) purchased the…
Sezincote: A Brief Description By the standards of early nineteenth-century country houses, Sezincote was relatively small. Its underlying structure follows the conventions of Georgian villa…
Montreal Park was originally built by Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-97) in the 1760s, to mark both his return from America and his Canadian…
A Shared Project Once returned to England in 1828, the Amhersts initiated other projects to ensure that a sense of familial identity was quickly restored….
By Ellen Filor Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in May 2013. The case study was last checked by the…
As he had no legitimate children of his own, the inheritance of his estates, including Warfield was entirely at Walsh’s behest. Although it had earlier…
When returning to England, how did East India Company officials and their families marry the England they imagined to that they were greeted with? For…
Richard Benyon the Younger died in 1796, leaving his son Richard Benyon (1770-1854) to inherit. On 27 September 1797, a year after his father’s death…
During the 1770s Powlett Wright made many changes to Englefield. He added a neo-Classical frieze featuring a repeating lotus and anthemion pattern (which originated in…
Dundas and The Nabob Interior If one of the attributes of a nabob was to live with pretention and ostentation, then the furnishing of the…
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