If Sir Richard Temple was indeed PA
's father, then she was the unacknowledged half-sister of Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham
, famous as an Opposition politician, landscape gardener, and patron of Alexander Pope
: a...
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By September 1735: The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire...
Building item
By September 1735
The gardens of Lord Cobham
at Stowe in Buckinghamshire were complete enough to be written up in The Daily Gazetteer.
Zeitz, Lisa M. “Constructing the Past, Construing the Future: Time and History in the Garden Space of Stowe”. Lumen, Vol.