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| 1812 |
| | | Turner completes the building of his villa. Initially called Solus Lodge, the name is changed to Sandycombe Lodge a year later. | |
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| c. 1813 |
| | | A copper beech is planted in the garden of Asgill House, which survives into the twenty-first century in good health and at a magnificent size | |
|  | Asgill House and its famous copper beech (BG)
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| 1815 |
| | | Louis Philippe, Duc D'Orléans rents during his exile the house in Twickenham that becomes known as Orleans House. | |
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| 1816 |
| | | Henrietta Hotham dies and the Marble Hill estate is sold to Timothy Brent then living at Little Marble Hill. The house subsequently has a number of owners. | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, dies and the 'Dutch house' in Kew Gardens is closed. | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Kew bridge is sold to George Robinson for £22,000 | |
|  | The second Kew Bridge, in 1892, by C.W. Fothergill
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
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| 1822 |
| | | Under Joseph Ellis the Star and Garter hotel expands still further to become the fashionable watering place for royalty and literary figures, including later in the century Dickens and Thackeray | |
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| 1823 |
| | | After the death of Eva Garrick, David Garrick's widow, in 1822 the contents of Garrick's Villa are auctioned and the Roubiliac statue from the Temple goes to the British Museum | |
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| 1823 |
| | | By an Act of Parliament George IV encloses the western end of Kew
Green up to the present Ferry Lane and closes the road across the Green. | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber | |
|  | Print of the King's School in Kew when newly built
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