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Thomas Whately (1726 – 26 May 1772), an English politician and writer, was a Member of Parliament (1761–1768) who served as Commissioner on the Board of Trade, as Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grenville, and as Under-secretary of State under Lord North (1771–1772).
Thomas Whately (1726/28–1772) is generally remembered as a politician, although garden historians often see him only as the author of Observations on Modern Gardening. He was well known in public life and recognised also as a well-informed and cultured man with a literary bent.
31 de ago. de 2023 · Thomas Whatley's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first contemporary study of what has come to be known as the English landscape garden, often claimed to be the country's greatestoriginal contribution to the fine arts.
- Michael Symes
- 2016
5 de jul. de 2016 · Thomas Whately (1726/28–1772) is generally remembered as a politician, although garden historians often see him only as the author of Observations on Modern Gardening. He was well known in public life and recognised also as a well-informed and cultured man with a literary bent.
Edition, with commentary, of the first comprehensiveattempt to describe the landscape garden. Thomas Whately'sObservations on Modern Gardening (1770) is th...
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19 de mai. de 2016 · Observations on Modern Gardening, by Thomas Whately An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden. Michael Symes
12 de dez. de 2016 · The modest entry for Thomas Whately (1726–1772) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography concentrates on his career as politician and administrator. It concludes that otherwise little can be ...
