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George Devey was a man capable of working on more than one project at a time.
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A third inn, known as the Rosebery Arms, designed by the Victorian architect George Devey has recently been converted into houses.
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.
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Also around this time another architect, George Devey, was commissioned to build half-timbered cottages on the estate along with a dairy and boathouse.
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.
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.
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.
This pool, originally created for skating, is the heart of a Monet-style garden, complete with a thatched summerhouse also designed by 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 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.
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.
The Old Rectory to the west of the church dates from 1864 and was built by George Devey for the Earl of Ducie.
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.
George Devey inserted the oak panels.
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The architect involved was George Devey, who was later to transform another Rothschild property, Ascott House.
Ascott House, Wing, Buckinghamshire | Wing designed by George Devey.
George Devey ( 1820 – 1886 ) was a British architect, born in London, the second son of Frederick and Ann Devey.
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.
George Devey was also interested in garden design and played an important role in not only the houses he designed, but also in garden buildings and folleys.
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In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.
A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.
The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.
In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.
George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;
The next speaker was George T. Day.
A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.
For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.
To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.
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