Lancelot Brown [Capability Brown]

(1716-1783)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brown, Lancelot, 1716-1783 NRA: Brown Lancelot (1715-1783) Architect and Landscape Gardener DNB: Brown, Lancelot [known as Capability Brown] (bap. 1716, d. 1783), landscape gardener and architect LBT ID: LaBrown1783 VIAF ID: 10121958 LOC ID: n50040078	B/BAP: 1716-08-30 DIED: 1783-02-06
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English landscape architect who popularized the naturalistic manner in gardening.
REFERENCES TO Lancelot Brown [Capability Brown]: William Godwin to Mary Jane Clairmont [Godwin], 9 October 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1827 Found 1: ¶ 43 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IV. 1801-1803