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| | The history of Compton Verney - ComptonVerney.co.uk |
 | | Richard Verney’s son, George, 12th Baron Willoughby de Broke, fellow of New College, Oxford and Dean of Windsor, inherited the estate in 1711 and decided to rebuild the house and re-landscape the gardens. |
 | | George, 12th Baron, had thus remodelled the house and gardens at Compton Verney, to create an estate that was suitable for a family with a new title. |
 | | John, 14th Baron, commissioned the prominent Scottish neoclassical architect, Robert Adam, to propose alterations to Compton Verney, one of whose drawings for the elevation of the east front of the house is dated 2nd September 1760 (in the Sir John Soane’s Museum Adam Drawings, Volume 41, number 17). |
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