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Devey and first
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.
Devey first appears in Rothschild account books as the architect for a new school at Hulcott, and the rebuilding of the parsonage there.

Devey and Sprague
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.

Devey and Engineering
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.

Devey and from
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.
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.
Jack Devey was also a Warwickshire cricketer from 1894 to 1907.

Devey and Office
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 and Naval
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.

Devey and where
During his professional career Devey had a London office in Great Marlborough Street, where he specialised in domestic architecture, lodges, cottages and country mansions.

Devey and was
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.
The project became a lifetime work for Devey as the house was continually expanded during the remainder of the 19th century.
Devey was a forerunner of the Arts and Crafts movement and had developed a rustic style of his own.
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.
George Devey ( 1820 – 1886 ) was a British architect, born in London, the second son of Frederick and Ann Devey.
Devey was educated in London, after leaving school he initially studied art, with an ambition to become a professional artist.
Devey was replaced by John Aspell, the Mentmore Clerk of Works who had worked under Devey.
A further Rothschild house by Devey was Aston Clinton, there he worked with George Stokes.
George Devey was a man capable of working on more than one project at a time.
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.
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.
John Henry George " Jack " Devey ( 26 December 1866 – 11 October 1940 ) was a football player.

Devey and .
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.
A third inn, known as the Rosebery Arms, designed by the Victorian architect George Devey has recently been converted into houses.
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.
Devey had worked at Ascott House, Aston Clinton House and Mentmore Towers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
George Devey inserted the oak panels.

first and came
It took them an hour before they came to the first houses of Kelseyville.
When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.
I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.
Their first collaboration came close.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.
The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.
When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.
In 1949 the Council of Europe came into existence, a purely consultative parliamentary body but the first organ of political rather than functional unity.
I hated you when I first came in.
( Gastronomes have long argued about which came first, the Palace's or Antoine's.
But not even our first pool-side gatherings came anywhere near those rosy fantasies.
The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.
Which came first??
Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.
The first productive period came when he was considering poetry as a vocation, before he had decided to write fiction for a living ( in his note for Who's Who he wrote that he `` wrote verses 1865 - 1868 ; ;
When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.
O'Banion's first conflict with the police came in 1909, at seventeen, when he was committed to Bridewell Prison for three months for burglary ; ;
At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

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