Sanderson Miller

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Sanderson Miller
portrait c. 1750
Born1716
Radway, England, Great Britain
Died23 April 1780(1780-04-23) (aged 63–64)
Radway, England, Great Britain
Children5 daughters and 1 son

Sanderson Miller (1716 – 23 April 1780) was an English pioneer of

landscape designer. He is noted for adding follies or other Picturesque
garden buildings and features to the grounds of an estate.

Wimpole's Folly, a mock semi-ruined castle designed by Miller, in the grounds of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire

Early life

Miller was the son of a wool merchant of the same name, High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1728, who died in 1737.[1] He was born, lived and died at Radway, on the Warwickshire estate bought by his father in 1712.[1][2]

At the age of 15, Miller was already interested in

Elizabethan house in a Gothic style.[1]

The Octagonal Tower at Edge Hill, Warwickshire

In the grounds he added a

Caractacus and was sited on the spot traditionally associated with the king raising the standard before the Battle of Edgehill
.

Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, where George Lyttelton insisted on a classical style for the main house. Miller landscaped the grounds and added a Gothic "ruined" castle.

Patronage and developments

This work at Radway established Miller's reputation as a gentleman, or

Hanworth Park
, the surviving part of a Royal hunting lodge used by Henry VIII.

Family

Miller married Susanna, daughter of Edward Trotman[nb 1] and they had six children: Fiennes, Charles, Susanna, Mary, Hester and Anna.[2]

The Wimpole Hall mock castle in its setting

Gallery of work

Notes

  1. ^ Dickins and Stanton claim that Susanna's father was named Samuel.[3]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37767. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b John Burke (1836). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Henry Colburn. p. 699. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  3. ^ Lilian Dickins; Mary Stanton (1910). An eighteenth-century correspondence: being the letters of Deane Swift--Pitt--The Lytteltons and the Granvilles--Lord Dacre--Robert Nugent--Charles Jenkinson--the Earls of Guilford, Coventry, & Hardwicke--Sir Edward Turner--Mr. Talbot of Lacock, and others to Sanderson Miller, esq., of Radway. Duffield. p. 123. Retrieved 9 July 2013.

Sources

  • William Hawkes, The Diaries of Sanderson Miller (Dugdale 2005)

Further reading

  • Jennifer Meir, Sanderson Miller and his Landscapes (Phillimore 2006)
  • Michael Cousins, "Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire: an eighteenth-century estate", Follies Journal, no 5 (2005), pp. 39–72.
  • Michael Cousins, "The sham ruin, Hagley", Follies Magazine, vol. 10, no. 1 (1998), pp. 3–4.
  • Michael Cousins, "Lady Elizabeth's Grotto [Hagley]", Follies Magazine, #64, pp. 14–16.
  • Michael Cousins, "Hagley Park, Worcestershire", Garden History, vol. 35, Suppl. 1 (2007), pp. 1–152.

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