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| 1763 |
| | | Some of Whitton Park's finest specimen trees and shrubs are transferred to the newly created botanical gardens at Kew. | |
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| 1766 |
| | | George Gostling buys Whitton Park, converts the greenhouse to a mansion and divides the estate, selling or leasing Whitton Place. | |
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| 1767 |
| | | Lady Suffolk dies and the Marble Hill estate passes to her nephew the Earl of Buckinghamshire. He lives occasionally in the house but also rents it out. | |
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| 1770 |
| | | Walpole adds the Great North Bedchamber to Strawberry Hill. | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Walpole adds the Beauclerk Tower and hexagonal closet to Strawberry Hill. | |
|  | Strawberry Hill
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| 1777 |
| | | Samual Prime inherits Kneller Hall from his father, Sir Samuel Prime, and enlarges the house and estate. | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Lord Buckingham dies and the Marble Hill estate passes to Lady Suffolk's great niece Henrietta Hotham. She lives in the house briefly and then rents it out, living some of the time in Little Marble Hill, a house built in the grounds. | |
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| 1796 |
| | | York House has various owners and tenants, being bought by Count, later Prince, Starhemberg, Austrian Ambassador who instals a private chapel. | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Horace Walpole dies and the Strawberry Hill estate is left to his niece, Anne Seymour Damer, a well-known sculptress, for her lifetime. | |
|  | Strawberry Hill, aquatint 1793
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| 1797 |
| | | George Gostling II inherits Whitton Park and commisions Humphrey Repton to landscape the grounds. | |
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