  lancelot brown (baptised 30 august 1716 â 6 february 1783), 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. his influence was so great that the contributions to the english garden made by his predecessors charles bridgeman and william kent are often overlooked; even kent's apologist horace walpole allowed that kent had been followed by "a very able master". at internet archive ==early life and stowe== lancelot brown was born in the tiny village of kirkharle, northumberland, and educated at cambo school. he mastered the principles of his craft by serving as a gardener's boy at sir william loraine's modest seat at kirkharle hall. in 1739 he journeyed south arriving at the port of boston where he married a local girl named bridget wayet.brown 2011 brown then moved further inland where his first landscape commission was for a new lake in the park at kiddington hall, oxfordshire.. he moved to wotton underwood, buckinghamshire, a minor seat of richard grenville, lord cobham. in 1741, he joined lord cobham's gardening staff at stowe, buckinghamshire, where he served under william kent, one of the founders of the new english style of landscape garden. as a proponent of the new english style, brown became immensely sought after by the landed families. by 1751, when brown was beginning to be widely known, horace walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of brown's work at [[warwick
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