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Devey first appears in Rothschild account books as the architect for a new school at Hulcott, and the rebuilding of the parsonage there.
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Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.
Leopold de Rothschild, whose principal country residence was Gunnersbury Park, used Ascott at first as a hunting box, but realising the limitations imposed by its modest size, in 1874 he employed the architect George Devey to enlarge it.
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After her marriage to the 5th Earl of Rosebery the building continued with another architect John Aspell ; his work appears similar to that of Devey, but has less refinement and is clearly of a cheaper construction.
Devey and Rothschild
In 1873 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.
A nearby ancillary property, The Pavilion at Eythrope, had been constructed for Alice de Rothschild by the architect George Devey.
Two cottages at Mentmore designed to appear as one house, typical of those designed by George Devey for Hannah de Rothschild.
On the death of Baron Mayer in 1877 his heiress Hannah de Rothschild continued the building of the village using another architect George Devey ( his work was a forerunner of the arts and crafts movement ).
The main feature of the room is the ceiling, which is the work of the Victorian architect George Devey who was commissioned by the Rothschild family in the 1880s to undertake changes to The King's Head.
The architect involved was George Devey, who was later to transform another Rothschild property, Ascott House.
After the Baron's death in 1877, Devey continued in the employ of his daughter Hannah de Rothschild building cottages at Wingrave and Mentmore.
Two cottages at Mentmore designed to appear as one house, typical of thoses designed by George Devey for Hannah de Rothschild.
A further Rothschild house by Devey was Aston Clinton, there he worked with George Stokes.
This was designed by Devey for the Rothschild family who were among the earliest patrons and promoters of this style.
Devey and architect
A third inn, known as the Rosebery Arms, designed by the Victorian architect George Devey has recently been converted into houses.
Also around this time another architect, George Devey, was commissioned to build half-timbered cottages on the estate along with a dairy and boathouse.
For her architect she spurned Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, who had designed Waddesdon, and instead chose one of the family's other favourite architects George Devey.
The design of the house while similar to Ascott, does not have the same lightness of touch as Ascott, so is unlikely to have been designed by Ascott's architect George Devey.
* date unknown-George Devey, artist and architect ( died 1886 )
George Devey ( 1820 – 1886 ) was a British architect, born in London, the second son of Frederick and Ann Devey.
The architect was George Devey.
Devey and for
Mr. Devey will be responsible for the commercial expansion of VecTrol's line of electronic and electrical power control components as furnished to end equipment manufacturers, working closely with Walter J. Brown, President and Director of Engineering of the recently acquired Sprague subsidiary.
The project became a lifetime work for Devey as the house was continually expanded during the remainder of the 19th century.
This pool, originally created for skating, is the heart of a Monet-style garden, complete with a thatched summerhouse also designed by George Devey.
The Old Rectory to the west of the church dates from 1864 and was built by George Devey for the Earl of Ducie.
Devey was largely responsible for Ascott House the neo-Tudor extravaganza developed from a small half timbered farmhouse.
Devey was also responsible for the large cottages, on the Green, near the entrance of Ascott House, ( now the Ascott Estate Office ); these are very similar to those he designed at St. Albans's Court, Kent in the late 1880s.
Devey later built a house very similar to the transformed Tring in Lennox Gardens, London, for a Mrs. Hunloke.
After the plans were drawn up, his patroness decided water at night was bad for her health Since the house was in a bend of the River Thame, rather than abandon the site, she decided Devey must design a house without bedrooms, and she would decamp every evening to her brother's home, Waddesdon Manor.
Devey was born in Birmingham and signed for Aston Villa in March 1891 ; he would go on to become one of Aston Villa's greatest captains.
Devey and new
At the beginning of the 20th century a new form of design arts and crafts became popular, the architectural form of this style, which had evolved from the 19th century designs of such architects as George Devey, was championed by Edwin Lutyens.
Devey and school
Devey was educated in London, after leaving school he initially studied art, with an ambition to become a professional artist.
Devey and at
Devey had worked at Ascott House, Aston Clinton House and Mentmore Towers.
However, the Lodge and stables by Devey still stand, as does his West Lodge at Aston Clinton.
Although the records were destroyed in World War II, Devey is also believed to have worked on the ' improvements ' at Tring Park between 1874 and 1878.
George Devey was a man capable of working on more than one project at a time.
Similar in nature to the work of George Devey at a similar time in England, the style was a form of idealised Tudor with half-timbered black beams set into white painted walls, beneath beamed gables and tiled roofs.
The earliest examples of the style originate with the works of such eminent architects as Norman Shaw and George Devey, in what at the time was thought of as a neo-Tudor design.
Devey and .
The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.
Mr. Devey is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended the United States Naval Academy Post-Graduate School specializing in electronic engineering.
Mr. Devey is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and is chairman of the Electronic Industries Association Committee on Printed and Modular Components.
Usually Devey designed the estate cottages, schools and village halls on the Rothschild's estate villages.
Devey attempted to design a house that rambled as though it had grown and developed over centuries.
Devey was a forerunner of the Arts and Crafts movement and had developed a rustic style of his own.
George Devey ( 1820 – 1886 ) and the better-known Norman Shaw ( 1831 – 1912 ) popularized the Queen Anne style of British architecture of the industrial age in the 1870s.
George Devey inserted the oak panels.
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