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	Eden Prairie High School:Capability Brown
		Lancelot was an English landscape gardener who was a leader in the development of the "natural," or "English," style of gardening.
		Brown was born in a small Northumberland village of Kirkharle, in 1715.
		Lancelot, a man of determination, used his power of persuasion to convince his clients to destroy their expensive and extensive formal gardens and replace them with a landscape that they would never see mature.
	teachers.edenpr.org /~rolson/ArcadiaWeb/Brown/CapabilityBrown.html (746 words)

	Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg14 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Lancelot was baptized on 30 Aug 1716 in Kirkharle, Northumberland.
		Mary Brown was born on 22 Aug 1706.
		Lancelot Brown was christened on 30 Aug 1716.
	www.angelfire.com /planet/madjack/pafg14.htm (348 words)

	Famous English Men Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
		Lancelot Brown moved to Buckinghamshire in 1739 and was employed by Lord Cobham at Stowe in 1741.
		Lancelot Brown's nickname 'Capability' came from his fondness for speaking about a country estate having a great 'capability' for improvement.
		Lancelot Brown described himself as a 'place-maker', not a 'landscape gardener'.
	www.englandsportal.com /capabilitybrown.html (228 words)

	Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton at Brightling Park
		Brown's habit of discussing the 'capabilities of improvement' of a property gave him the nick name he's best known by.
		Brown was involved in the design of Brightling Park when Rose Fuller lived there in 1763.
		Here 'Capability' Brown emerges as the vandal, for he destroyed the three greatest Baroque gardens in England; Longleat House in 1757, and Chatsworth and Blenheim in 1760.
	www.johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com /reptonbrown.html (1602 words)

	Capability Brown biography
		Lancelot "Capability" Brown was born in Kirkharle, Northumberland in 1715 (more about his nickname "Capability" in a moment).
		Lancelot Brown soon acquired the peculiar nickname "Capability" from his habit of telling clients that their gardens had "great capabilities".
		The English landscape garden under Capability Brown was a place of wide green undulating lawns with sinuous bands and clumps of trees, planted with the utmost care to give the impression of a romantic natural scene.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/brown.htm (413 words)

	Capability Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener.
		Brown's popularity declined rapidly after his death, because his work was seen as a feeble imitation of wild nature.
		Brown died in 1783, in Hertford Street, London, on the doorstep of his daughter Bridget who had married the architect Henry Holland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capability_Brown (819 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lancelot
		Lancelot or Ladislaus, c.1376-1414, king of Naples (1386-1414), son and successor of Charles III.
		Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626, Anglican divine, bishop of Chichester (1605), Ely (1609), and Winchester (1619).
		Lancelot Andrewes, Plagiarism, and Pedagogy at Hampton Court in 1606.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Lancelot (490 words)

	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: History and Heritage: People: Landscapers, Architects & Gardeners: Lancelot ...
		Brown was born in Northumberland, and moved south in his early twenties.
		However, in 1764 Brown was appointed Master Gardener at Hampton Court, and was engaged by George III to re-landscape Richmond Gardens.
		To Bridgeman’s straight avenues, and Kent’s follies, Brown preferred gently undulating lawns, with views between various-sized clumps of trees of a body of water in the middle-distance – a landscape seen as desolate by a number of critics.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /heritage/people/brown.html (216 words)

	World of Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brown’s gardens lacked Kent’s close connection with the Classical world; instead, most of them were idealized visions of the English countryside.
		Brown’s landscapes were composed of trees and lawn, with a body of water as a focal point.
		In 1792 Gilpin published an essay in which he wrote that while beauty is usually associated with the smooth and the neat, such as the gently sculpted landscapes of Capability Brown with their smooth lawns leading down to placid lakes; picturesque beauty tends to have a wilder quality with rougher textures.
	www.irinasworld.com /nature5.html (1804 words)

	History of Horticulture - Brown, Lancelot 1715-1783
		ancelot Brown was born in a family of moderate circumstances in North England.
		Hadfield states, "Brown was essentially a practical man with an eye for a certain type of landscape." After riding around an estate for a few hours, he would have visualized not how his standardized landscape could be imposed upon the existing scene but how it could be done at the least expense.
		Brown is criticized for the destruction that he wrought before he created: for the avenues felled and the handiwork of his predecessors which he obliterated.
	www.hcs.ohio-state.edu /hort/history/074.html (227 words)

	Lancelot Capability Brown
		Lancelot Brown was a leader in the development of the ‘natural’, ‘English’ or ‘serpentine’ style of gardening.
		Lancelot Brown became known as ‘Capability’ because of his fondness of speaking of a country estate having a great ‘capability’ for improvement.
		Lancelot Capability Brown’s sympathetic method of working meant that of the 200 plus parks he designed a surprising number remain in good condition.
	www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk /lancelot_capability_brown.htm (384 words)

	Capability Brown - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brown, Capability (Lancelot Brown), 1715-83, English landscape gardener, b.
		Brown began as a young gardener to the gentry and, working at the famous gardens at Stowe during the 1740s, became a disciple of William Kent.
		In 1749 he became a consulting gardener and earned his nickname by often telling clients that their properties had "capabilities." Brown created many of the most important gardens of the 18th cent., including those at Petworth House, Kew, Blenheim Palace, Ashburnham Place, and Warwick Castle.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc.aspx?id=1E1:browncap (303 words)

	Brown
		Lancelot Brown was born in Kirkharle, where a plaque in St Eilfrid's church commemorates his baptism.
		Lancelot Brown was the fifth child of six, but the records are far from clear.
		Those who feel that genius is unlikely to spring from a lowly family like the Browns (or Shakespeares) have proposed that Lancelot was in fact the illegitimate son of Sir Walter Loraine - according to local traditions, his mother was a servant at the Hall.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /alan.myers/brown.htm (561 words)

	Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - a biography from the landscape architecture and Gardens Guide
		Lancelot Brown was born in Northumberland and served an apprenticeship with Sir William Lorraine.
		Brown moved to Buckinghamshire in 1739 and was employed by Lord Cobham at Stowe in 1741.
		In 1764 Lancelot Brown was appointed Master Gardener at Hampton Court.
	www.gardenvisit.com /b/brown1.htm (271 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
		Lancelot (Capability) Brown was born at Kirkharle in Northumberland, the son of a gardener.
		In 1764 Brown was appointed Master Gardener at Hampton Court Palace in succession to John Greening and in this post he occupied an official residence, Wilderness House.
		Brown had also employed John Spyers as a surveyor, a native of Twickenham.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=295 (501 words)

	Georgian Index - Gardens
		Brown swept this away, transported an estimated 64,000 tons of soil, dammed a stream and made a serpentine lake which became the park's centerpiece.
		The size of the lake is indiscernible, as Brown curved the far edges out of sight, and planted those shores with dense trees, thereby making the lake seem to stretch out into infinity, much as the rolling contours of his lawns mask the true size of the park.
		Lancelot Brown designed the grounds of over 140 estates, some of his best were Petworth, Blenheim Palace, Harewood House, Glamis Castle, and Bowood and Longleat in Wiltshire.
	www.georgianindex.net /garden/Gardens.html (2975 words)

	The Beautiful
		Brown's biographer, Dorothy Stroud, notes that Brown's work at Stowe predates Hogarth's book and wonders if there is a connection...
		Brown was born 1716 at Cambo, Northumberland, not very far from Newcastle.
		Perhaps Brown is criticised because he was too prolific – if he had only produced one or two gardens, he might have remained the artist/hero.
	www.apl.ncl.ac.uk /coursework/IThompson/Informal_4.htm (1878 words)

	Root out invaders, and don't spare the sward - theage.com.au
		Around the corner a couple of wise residents have given up the unequal struggle with the natural aridity of the place and have planted huge rocks, tufts of brown grass and the odd straggly native bush that passes for a shrub.
		Capability Brown's gardens have been around so long (he lived from 1715 to 1783) that we may mistake his contrived vistas (he created about 170 artificial landscapes for the aristocracy) for the natural condition of the English environment.
		Brown's gardens were for a wet country, but our ancestors, newly arrived in these parts, were so homesick that they could not be content until the weedy, straggly local plants had been uprooted and a small replica of Brown's art recreated in this unlikely outpost of European civilisation.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/08/1044579982131.html (725 words)

	VN Boards - James Brown died.
		Brown was born in 1933 in South Carolina.
		Brown had 94 hits on Billboard's mainstream Hot 100 in the US, according to his official website, and by the end of his career, he had a total repertoire of 800 songs.
		Brown appeared in London in October as part of the BBC's Electric Proms line-up.
	vnboards.ign.com /lancelot/b20665/100644872/p1/?2 (697 words)

	Sir Lancelot the Handsome
		Lancelot refused them, and it is here that he admitted his love for Queen Guinevere, King Arthur's wife.
		Lancelot and Guinevere's love for each other grew slowly, as Guinevere kept Lancelot away from her.
		Poor Lancelot ended his days as a lowly hermit and Guinevere became a nun at Amesbury where she died.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/mythology/36555 (524 words)

	Capability Brown at AllExperts
		Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February, 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener.
		It is suggested that Bloody stupid Johnson from the Discworld series is based on Capability Brown.
		Capability Brown is frequently referenced in Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/capability_brown.htm (881 words)

	LANCELOT: TEXTS, IMAGES, BASIC INFORMATION
		Among his many adventures are the rescue of the abducted Queen Guinevere from Meleagant, an unsuccessful quest for the Holy Grail and the rescue of the queen after she is condemned to be burned to death for adultery.
		Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Elaine and Lancelot" (1911)
		Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Lancelot and Guinevere" (1911)
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/LANMENU.htm (1065 words)

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		Feel free to contact Dr. Lancelot A. Brown if you have any questions and he would be happy to discuss your needs in detail.
	www.drlbrown.com (200 words)

	Landscape Designers of England and Europe
		Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1715-1783) designed the great parks and estates for the wealthy in the latter half of the 18
		Brown is largely responsible for changing the English landscape from a formal design of knot gardens, parterres, and topiaries to informal meandering paths, streams, serpentine lakes, and rolling hills with scattered groupings of trees--a "natural," yet man-made, look.
		Although Brown was perhaps the most influential in this revolution in the English landscape, his contemporary William Kent (1685-1748) is often credited as the architect of the fully mature English landscape.
	www.uvm.edu /pss/ppp/articles/euroland.htm (700 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown
		The name of “Capability Brown” evokes a landscape of sheep gently grazing in grassy parkland, punctuated by trees and a naturalistic lake, an image exported around the world via France as le jardin anglais and for which he was largely responsible.
		Lancelot Brown was born in Kirkharle, Northumberland in 1716 into a farming family and attended school at nearby Cambo until he was sixteen.
		It can be assumed he was naturally intelligent and received a good basic education since he later became adept in the various skills required of a landscaper, hydraulic engineer, architect, artist and scientist, and had the ability to converse cogently with his patrons.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=598 (435 words)

	Brown's Life
		Wilderness House (left) was an early residence of Brown and his family.
		Brown purchased this manor after his work took him farther from home.
		Although Fenstanton was considerably more expensive, Brown and his family prefered Wilderness House and spent most of their time there.
	members.tripod.com /Buckster78/brown's.htm (101 words)

	Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Capability Brown
		In the first half of the 18th century, a young man emerged from a remote northern English village, took the landscape as his raw material, and created what the world has come to think of as the English countryside.
		Lancelot Brown—he became known to his noble patrons as "Capability" Brown—raised the craft of landscape gardening to an art, whose enduring quality is shown in this beautiful and informative documentary guide to Brown and his work.
		Films Media Group, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, Shopware and their respective logos are trademarks of Films Media Group, a PRIMEDIA company.
	www.films.com /id/2903/Capability_Brown.htm (350 words)

	People and places - Lancelot Capability Brown : Enjoy England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brown, who created the wonderful landscapes of many of England's great estates, was born at Kirkharle in Northumberland.
		Admire the superb work of Sir John Vanbrugh, engaged to remodel the exterior of the house in the 1750's and then marvel at the talent of Robert Adam as you explore the rooms inside.
		Wander through the splendidly furnished rooms of this magnificent mansion, ancestral home of the Constable family for over 400 years, and admire the collections of Chippendale furniture, along with William Constable’s 18th century Cabinet of Curiosities which houses fossils, corals, scientific instrument and natural curiosities.
	www.enjoyengland.com /ideas/inspirational-ideas/historic-england/places-and-people/lancelot-capability-brown.aspx (178 words)

	ALEXANDER BROWN INDEX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexander Brown (18**-1893) was an evangelist with the British Churches of Christ who had a great interest in training preachers and who started the churches' correspondence courses.
		When David King no longer had time to train students, Alexander Brown and Lancelot Oliver were appointed to conduct the work.
		Brown wrote the conference papers for 1878, and 1885 and was President in 1877, and 1886.
	www.netcomuk.co.uk /~pdover/brownidx.htm (81 words)

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