LANDSCAPE-PAINTER AS LANDSCAPE-GARDENER THE CASE OF ALFRED PARSONS R. A. VOLUME II (two volumes) NICOLE MILETTE, architect A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of York Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies January 1997 Section 7 Appendices TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 APPENDICES 351 7.1 PARSONS'S GENEALOGY 351 7.2 BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED PARSONS 360 7.3 ARTICLES ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED PARSONS 362 7.3.1 Alfred Parsons's illustrations in The Garden 364 7.4 SOLO EXHIBITIONS CATALOGUES OF PARSONS'S EXHIBITIONS 369 7.5 EXTENT OF COLLABORATION TO MAGAZINES AND PAPERS 369 7.6 CORRESPONDENCE TO ALFRED PARSONS 370 7.7 TOTAL NUMBER OF PARSONS WORKS EXHIBITED AT VARIOUS GALLERIES . 374 7.8 CHART SHOWING THE RISE OF THE NUMBER OF ART STUDENTS IN ENGLAND . 375 7.9 PARSONS AT DIFFERENT LONDON GALLERIES AND SOCIETIES 376 The Dudley Gallery 376 The Dudley Art Society 378 Society of Oil Painters. 379 Suffolk Street. SA (RSA) 380 The Royal West of England Academy 380 The Royal Academy. 381 The Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours RI 382 The Royal Water colour Society RWS 383 Botanical Sketchbook at Bankside Gallery. 385 The Grosvenor Gallery. GG 386 The Fine Art Society. FAS 387 Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell 392 The New English Art Club. NEAC 392 The New Gallery. NG 393 The Leicester Gallery 394 7.10 VARIOUS EXHIBITIONS IN THE U. K 397 Birmingham 397 Dublin (Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts) 398 Glasgow 399 Liverpool 400 Manchester 401 Sotheby's 402 National Gallery of British Art; Oldham, Hull, Corcoran Art Gallery 402 Hanley Museum, Stoke-on-Trent: 1921 402 Christie, Manson & Woods 402 Various exhibitions abroad 403 Brussels, 1897 403 Saint-Louis World's Fair, Missouri, USA, 1904 403 The New Zealand International Exhibition in 1907 403 Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 403 International Fine Arts Exhibition, Rome 1911 403 The American Art Galleries, New York 1916 403 Washington and Milwaukee in America 403 Japan National Gallery in Tokyo, 1892 403 British Works of Art at Recent International Exhibitions 404 7.11 EVOLUTION OF RETAIL PRICES 1700-1994 405 Section 7 Appendices 7.12 WILLIAM ROBINSON'S BIBLIOGRAPHY 406 7.13 ART WORKS HELD BY W. ROBINSON AT GRAVETYE 411 7.14 TABLES CONCERNING THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN 415 AP's illustrations reproduced in ten or more editions. 415 Proportion of AP's illustrations in The English Flower Garden 416 List of engravers involved in The English Flower Garden 417 7.15 'THE LANDSCAPE GARDENER AND HIS WORK' BY MR. 0. C. SIMONDS 418 7.16 PARSONS AS SEEN BY HENRY JAMES IN 'OUR ARTISTS IN EUROPE' 421 7.17 CAPTAIN PARTRIDGE'S CHRONOLOGY 424 7.18 PEDIGREE OF TUDWAY 428 7.19 WHITE LODGE, RICHMOND: BRIEF HISTORY (C. 1900) 429 7.20 ANALYSIS OF A SECONDARY SOURCE: ANNE HELMREICH'S THESIS . • 431 Questions of accuracy of detail (misdemeanours) in Heltnreich's thesis . • 432 Queries about the validity of Helmreich's argument 433 Parsons and "the invention of tradition" 436 a) Englishness 436 b) Mercantilism first, Nationalism last 436 c) Paintings as justification for designs ? 437 d) Traditions 438 e) Illusion or escapism 438 7.21 PLANTS AT OR FOR GREAT CHALFIELD 440 7.22 PLANT NAMES MENTIONED IN MSSRO DOCUMENTS 442 7.23 PLANT LISTS MENTIONED IN THE MsSRO DOCUMENTS. 445 7.24 DATES OF THE INTRODUCTION OF PLANTS INTO THE UK (NAMES MENTIONED IN MsSRO DOCUMENTS) 446 7.25 APPENDICES RELATING TO THE WELBECK GARDEN 447 7.25.1 The Welbeck Garden Bibliographical sources 447 7.25.2 Summary of overlays 449 7.25.3 List of maps 451 7.25.4 Collection of 50 Lutniere Autochrome plates 452 7.25.5 List of plants at The Welbeck Garden 455 7.26 GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 456 7.27 MAPS SHOWING LANDSCAPE GARDENING COMMISSIONS: 1884-1913 469 7.28 SOURCES JUSTIFYING THE LIST OF GARDEN COMMISSIONS 478 7.29 ALFRED PARSONS'S CHRONOLOGY 490 Section 7 Appendices 351 7 APPENDICES 7.1 PARSONS'S GENEALOGY In a Laverton churchyard are located the tombstones of Joshua Parsons and other members of Alfred Parsons's family. Most of the genealogicatinformation comes from a lifetime's research on the part of Winifred Haythome, the mother of Sir Richard Parsons who is a great nephew of Alfred Parsons. Here are the first lines of her genealogical book: Inscriptions in the Baptist Chapel at Laverton copied by J. 0. Lewis, Clumber House Frome March 1932 The book is in the possession of Miss Bush, daughter of the late B. J. Bush, of Laverton who lent it to Mr. Lewis.' The book is bound with sheep skin over card board, some 10 inches square,3'4 inches thick & is only used to about a third of its pages- the others remaining blank & slightly sorted by damp. It commences with a heading Baptist Church, Laverton 1814 & states that in the year 1787,...by calling several persons at Laverton to a sense of their lost & fate etc... 2 The following compilation started August llth 1993 by the present author, completing, mostly with the fourth and fifth generation entries, Winifred Haythome's notes. Nota Bene: In disclosing the content of some wills, which are available for public consultation at Somerset House in London, the intention is eventually to trace information relating to Alfred Parsons. The author of this thesis apologizes for any inconvenience it might cause. (To reveal who inherited, and the amounts inherited, might annoy certain family descendants.) In Memory of Joseph Parsons who died April 8 1837 aged 76 years and of Elizabeth Parsons (his wife) who died Feb. 14 1844 aged 67 years Their dust & ruins which remain Are precious in our eyes Those ruins shall be built again And all that dust shall rise Sacred to the memory of William Hosier who died Dec. 9. 1826 aged 69 years And of Sarah Hosier his wife who died Nov. 24 1853 aged 86 years "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"3 [Underlined in the genealogy are the names of the family members consulted.] 1 Haythome, Winifred. Beige manuscript genealogical notebook. Front page. In the possession of Sir Richard Parsons. 2 From Manuscript: Genealogical note book: page 2. 3 MS Haythome: 1 Section 7 Appendices 352 Dr Joshua Parsons (b. Dec 30 1814, d. June 20. 1892) 5th son and 9th child of Joseph Parsons of Laverton) & Letitia (Harriet) Williams (b. Jan. 16 1824 d. March 1.1897) were married at Donhead St-Mary Wilts on April 10 1845. Joshua had all his children at Abbey House Goose St Beckington except Franklin who was born at the Priory now pulled down. House now on site is ? Sunnyside. He lived [there?] 25 years- the Evanses now have the house, 1932.4 Issue [In total seventeen, three never lived]: 1. Henry Franklin (Frank) born (b.) at Beckington Somerset Feb. 27 1846. M. D. Medical (inspector & assistant M.O. to (L.G.B.) Local Gov. Board. married (m.) Aug. 27 1879 Louisa AnneWells ofBoothbevry House, Yorkshire, & had issue. Frank died (d.) 29 Oct 1913 and was living at 4 Park Hill Rise, Croyden. 1.1 Mary Louisa b. July 6. 1880 d. April 27.1881 1.2 Edith Gladys (b. Dec. 6th 1883) m. on Sept. 29th 1910 James Vincent Bennett Raikes Bromage of the Indian Police. (Dunfield, Kington) first cousin: see 4.4b 1.2.1 Anne, eldest child m. Cyril Franklin Brooke, 1.3.1 below ie first cousin. 1.2.2 Edith Isabel, born Sept. 8-1911, younger daughter, m. Lionel Arthur Templeman elder son of Major Arthur Speer, J. P. and Mrs Speer, late of Showborough House, Tewkesbury, married May 26th 1936. 1.2.3 James 1.2.4 John Died & her husband m. again & had a second family 1.3 Florence Margaret (Madge) b. Jan 28 1885, m. Sept. 7.1911 to George Cyril Brooke of the British Museum. [Madge inherits from Clement] 1.3.1 Cyril m. Anne Bromage (1st cousin) cf 1.2.1 m. Anne Bromage 1.3.2.1 Anthony d. age 2 1.3.2.2 Rosemary m. John Hanson 1.3.2.2.1 Richard 1.3.2.2.2. Nicholas 1.3.2.3 John Stephen 1.3.2 Bryan N. Brooke m. Naomi Winefride Mills parents of 1.3.1.1 Marian Esther m. Michael (Mike)Shaw. 1.3.1.1.1 Harriet, b. 1970 m. David Fawcett 1.3.1.1.2 Naomi, b. 1972 1.3.1.1.3 Daniel, b. 1976 1.3.1.2 Nicola Sarah m. Christopher (Chris) Brooker 1.3.1.2.1 Emma 1.3.1.2.2 Thomasin 1.3.1.2.3 Matilda 1.3.1.3 Penelope (Penny) Frances m. George Huntley 1.3.1.3.1 Gabriel 1.3.1.3.2 Margharita 2. Alfred William B. Becldngton Dec. 2 1847 Artist A.R.A. 1897 R.A. 1911. Kensington Unni(?) d. 16 Jan 1920, bur. Frome after cremation. Résumé of his will included in the hope of finding out who inherited his diaries and notebooks. Clement Valentine Parsons and his brother in law David Keith will be the executors. Godfather of his nephew: Richard (Dick) Alfred, son of Herbert. Sends him to Downside. Written at the end of Mrs Haythome's book of genealogy. Section 7 Appendices 353 Inherits £100. Godfather of his nephew Alfred Leonard Puddicombe. Inherits £100 (son of Winifred) Godfather of his niece Rachel Keith. Inherits £100 (daughter of Letitia (the artist) and David Keith) Godfather of John Alfred Parsons-Millet, son of Mrs Lily Greely Millet.