Willis Papers ca. 1955 - ca. 1995

Dr. Peter Willis, b. 1933

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Peter Willis was educated at the universities of Durham and Cambridge (Ph.D. 1962), where his thesis on Charles Bridgeman: royal gardener was supervised by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. After a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California in 1960/61, he practised as an architect in Edinburgh from 1961-1964. He held a fellowship at Harvard University in 1964/65, and then taught at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne as lecturer in architecture 1966-1979, and reader in the history of arch...

Willis, Peter, b. 1933

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Bridgeman, Charles, d. 1738

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Brown, Capability, 1715-1783

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Stowe House (Buckingham, England)

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Kent, William, 1685-1748

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William Kent was apprenticed to a coachmaker in Yorkshire but went to London in 1703 and to Rome in 1710 to study painting. In Italy he met Thomas Coke (first Earl of Leicester) who would become his patron. From the description of Drawings of Holkham Hall. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122559159 ...