Compton Verney
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Compton Verney is a manor and parish in the county of Warwickshire
, England.
Compton Verney House
is an 18th century country mansion which has been converted into an art gallery.
The village of Compton Murdac came to be renamed around 1500 as Compton Verney under the influence of the Verney family who first built a manor house there in 1442. The Manor House was extended by succeeding generations as the family's fortune improved.
Richard Verney (1621–1711) was granted the title of 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke by the House of Lords in 1695 after his elder brother's family line failed. His son the 12th baron rebuilt the house and landscaped the gardens in the early 18th century. The house was then later completely remodelled by Robert Adam
and the gardens by Capability Brown
for the 14th Baron, John Peyto-Verney
. Financial circumstances forced the family to let the house from 1887 and finally to sell it in 1921 to the Leeds soap magnate Josph Watson
(d.1922) (created in 1922 1st Baron Manton of Compton Verney
) who however never resided there having died the following year. His eldest son and heir Miles resided at Compton Verney for a short while, but soon sold it. It then belonged to various owners before being requisitioned by the War Office during the Second World War. After the war the house was never lived in again. It now belongs to the Compton Verney House Trust who run it as an Art Gallery.
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
, England.
Compton Verney House
Compton Verney House
Compton Verney House is an 18th century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire which has been converted into the Compton Verney Art Gallery....
is an 18th century country mansion which has been converted into an art gallery.
The village of Compton Murdac came to be renamed around 1500 as Compton Verney under the influence of the Verney family who first built a manor house there in 1442. The Manor House was extended by succeeding generations as the family's fortune improved.
Richard Verney (1621–1711) was granted the title of 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke by the House of Lords in 1695 after his elder brother's family line failed. His son the 12th baron rebuilt the house and landscaped the gardens in the early 18th century. The house was then later completely remodelled by Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Robert Adam was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam , Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him...
and the gardens by Capability Brown
Capability Brown
Lancelot Brown , more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure...
for the 14th Baron, John Peyto-Verney
John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke
John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke and de jure 22nd Baron Latimer was a peer in the peerage of England.John Peyto-Verney was born John Verney on 5 August 1738, the son of Sir John Verney , KC and Abigail Harley, inheriting the title 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke and 22nd Baron...
. Financial circumstances forced the family to let the house from 1887 and finally to sell it in 1921 to the Leeds soap magnate Josph Watson
Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton
Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton was a prominent English industrialist and philanthropist.Watson was the only son of George Watson, soap manufacturer, of Donisthorpe House near Moor Allerton, Leeds, Yorkshire...
(d.1922) (created in 1922 1st Baron Manton of Compton Verney
Baron Manton
Baron Manton, of Compton Verney in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1922 in recognition of war services for the Leeds industrialist Joseph Watson...
) who however never resided there having died the following year. His eldest son and heir Miles resided at Compton Verney for a short while, but soon sold it. It then belonged to various owners before being requisitioned by the War Office during the Second World War. After the war the house was never lived in again. It now belongs to the Compton Verney House Trust who run it as an Art Gallery.
External links
- Compton Verney House
- "Parishes: Compton Verney", A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 5: Kington hundred (1949), pp. 58–60. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57040. Date accessed: 31 December 2007.