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Vitruvius Britannicus: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century British Architecture (Dover Architecture)

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Compton Place, Eastbourne, Sussex, 1726 onwards, south front and extensive internal rebuilding for Sir Spencer Compton

Dorothea Astor (1795-1853); married, c.1813, Col. Walter Langdon and had issue eight children (of whom five daughters survived to adulthood); died 1853; Gwendolyn Enid Astor (1892-1902), born 1 April 1892; died of tuberculosis in London, 12 September 1902, and was buried at Trinity Church Cemetery, Manhattan, New York (USA). In 1739 Badeslade and Rocque had published, Vitruvius Britannicus, Volume the Fourth; but that was essentially a collection of topographic views, and Woolfe and Gandon ignore it and treat their own work as the true successor to the three volumes of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus of 1715-25. He died 10 September 2000; will proved 4 January 2001. His first wife died in 1982. His second wife died in 1997. His third wife was living in 2003.

Colen Campbell (1676 - 1729)

Hon. Sarah Violet Astor (b. 1953) of Gnaton Hall, Yealmton (Devon), born 30 September 1953; High Sheriff of Devon, 2011-12; married, 22 February 1975, Hon. George Edward Lopes, younger son of Massey Henry Edgcumbe Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough, and had issue one son;

Astor, Waldorf (1879-1952), 2nd Viscount Astor: correspondence and papers, 1902-52 [Reading University Library, MS1066]; parliamentary correspondence and papers, 20th cent. [Plymouth & West Devon Record Office, Acc. 186] Stainborough and Wentworth Castle [i.e. Stainborough Hall], Yorks (W.R.): bird's-eye view of entrance front , 1730 X1) James Edward Astor (b. 1976), born 10 January 1976; educated at Marlborough College; he has, from a relationship with Suzanne Lundgren Lloyd, one daughter. Elevation of the south front of Wilton House, Wiltshire, designed by Isaac Caus and John Webb. With plans.

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John Rudolph Astor (b. & d. 1881), born 28 November 1881; died in infancy, 27 December 1881 and was buried in the Astor vault, Trinity Church Cemetery, Manhattan, New York (USA);

Colen Campbell and his contemporaries believed that the south front of Wilton had been designed by Inigo Jones and it therefore became a design icon. It was one of the most fruitful sources of ideas for the neo-Palladian architects of the eighteenth century, leading directly to houses such as Houghton and Holkham. Although the fourth Earl of Pembroke had consulted Jones, the front built from 1636 was designed by Isaac de Caus. His were the windows, including the Venetian window in the centre, and the two towers, put there to hide and earlier structure. Both features became major motifs of neo-Palladianism. After a fire in 1647, Jones' pupil John Webb hid the roof behind the parapet and put pitched roofs on end towers. In this engraving Campbell 'improved' the design still further by adding a set of steps to centre. The great rooms at Wilton are the only surviving interiors in the court style of Inigo Jones. Hever Castle: the 'Tudor Village' built as an extension to the house to provide guest and service accommodation and linked to the main building by a bridge across the moat. Image: Got my reservations

Emily Astor (1819-41); married, 1838, Sam Ward jr (d. 1884), banker, (who m2, Marie Angeline (k/a Medora) Grymes and had issue two sons) and had issue one son (died in infancy) and one daughter; died in childbirth, 1841 in New York (USA); Pembroke Lodge, Whitehall, London; executed Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke's design (c.1724), demolished 1756

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