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Devey and responsible
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 and for
A nearby ancillary property, The Pavilion at Eythrope, had been constructed for Alice de Rothschild by the architect George Devey.
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.
Two cottages at Mentmore designed to appear as one house, typical of those designed by George Devey for Hannah de Rothschild.
The Old Rectory to the west of the church dates from 1864 and was built by George Devey for the Earl of Ducie.
Devey first appears in Rothschild account books as the architect for a new school at Hulcott, and the rebuilding of the parsonage there.
Two cottages at Mentmore designed to appear as one house, typical of thoses designed by George Devey for Hannah de Rothschild.
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.
This was designed by Devey for the Rothschild family who were among the earliest patrons and promoters of this style.

Devey and electronic
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.
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 electrical
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 working
George Devey was a man capable of working on more than one project at a time.

Devey and with
Also around this time another architect, George Devey, was commissioned to build half-timbered cottages on the estate along with a dairy and boathouse.
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 was educated in London, after leaving school he initially studied art, with an ambition to become a professional artist.
This family would provide Devey with numerous commissions and ensure a steady stream of work.
A further Rothschild house by Devey was Aston Clinton, there he worked with George Stokes.
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 recently
A third inn, known as the Rosebery Arms, designed by the Victorian architect George Devey has recently been converted into houses.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.

will and be
It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
`` And the boy will be too much under his influence by then.
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
For three straight years, Tom Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how many men he killed after Lewis and Powell ( if he killed Lewis and Powell ) will never be known.
`` He will not always be indisposed ''.
`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.
There will be romance and flirtation.
They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.
`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.
`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.
`` That critter will be back tomorrow '', predicted George Rust, `` and he'll bring fifty of his kind back with him.
His room will be ready shortly ''.
Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.
Meanwhile, the experts speak of wars triggered by `` false pre-emption '', `` escalation '', `` unauthorized behavior '' and other terms that will be discussed in this report.
There will be premieres of new works, made possible through Ford Foundation commissions: Carlisle Floyd's Mystery, with Phyllis Curtin as soprano soloist.
Other world premieres will be Gardner Read's Third Symphony and Burle Marx's Samba Concertante.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
We, in our country, think of war as an external threat which, if it occurs, will not be primarily of our own doing.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.
It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.

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