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Companion Pages to a dual biography of John Claudius Loudon and Claudius Buchanan

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It is a fictionalised expansion of Jane Web Loudon's biography of John Claudius Loudon extended to include his missionary cousin, Claudius Buchanan: it's hard to understand one of them without understanding the other. Before 1st December 2024. The Claudians is available at a pre-publication price (25% discount): £2.99 on Amazon. The author is  Tom Turner - the editor of the Gardenvisit.com website

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The links below take you to the first batch of Companion Pages providing the factual background to The Claudians. Publishing all the Companion Pages (approx 300 pages with 1,000 images will take some time).

Introduction

About The Claudians -

The Cambuslang Awakening -

Two sons of Cambuslang - 

Somers, Buchanan and Loudon Family Trees - 

John Claudius Loudon: an Appreciation - 

Reverend Dr. Claudius Buchanan: an Appreciation -

Cambuslang Parish - 

Enlightenment, Romanticism and War - 

The historical canvas 1800-1830 - 

Loudon's history of garden design

Loudon's gardening and architecture magazines -

Chapter 1 Somers and Buchanans

The Wigtown Martyrs -

Glenochar Ferm Toun -

Coal mining in Scotland -

Spa Fields Pleasure Garden -

Dunstaffnage Castle -

Chapter 2 Loudons

Joseph Banks Soho Square - 

Kerse Hall Gogar -

Edinburgh Old Town and New Town -

Chapter 3 Indian mission

Crown Court Church, Covent Garden - 

Storm in the South Atlantic -

Claudius Buchanan travelled on elephants - 

Garden Reach, Calcutta

Buchanan at Queen’s College, Cambridge - 

Chapter 4 Picturesque gardens

Firth of Forth and Calton Hill -

Chapel Street and St John - 

James Sowerby house Mead Place - 

Loudon’s Improved Furnace - 

Scone Palace in Perthshire - 

Hafod estate in Wales

Chapter 5 Farming landscapes

Ffestiniog Village -

Loudon design for Great Tew Farm -

Jali screen  -

Wife burning suttee -

Buchanan's predestination 

Chapter 6 Prussian gardens

Napoleon's retreat and Loudon's advance - 

Lazienki Palace Garden

Chapter 7 Russian gardens

Tykocin (Tykocyn) Village, Poland - 

Winter in St Petersburg

Chapter 8 Buchanan's predestination

Buchanan grave inscriptions -

Chapter 9 Italian gardens

Loudon’s Grand Tour - 

Belvedere at Frascati: Villa Aldobrandini Garden - 

Gondo Village

Chapter 10 Gardenesque Paris

Steamships from Brighton Pier - 

Thomas Blaikie Scottish Gardener -  

Gardenesque planting design - 

Chapter 11 Utilitarian landscapes

Jeremy Bentham and gardens - 

Jeremy Bentham's disscetion - 

Jeremy Bentham: the father of utilitarian town planning - 

John Claudius Loudon’s Breathing Places: Vision for Green Zones in London - 

The Claudian Dream - 

London Promenade - 

Edinburgh Promenade

Chapter 12 Marriage 

The Mummy by Jane Webb Loudon - 

Porchester Terrace: Loudons' Home -

Chapter 13 Landscape Architecture

 The Loudons Honeymoon Tour - 

Loudon's Circular Glasshouse design - 

Loudon and the term 'landscape architecture' -

Chapter 14 Family reunion

Loudon's design for Pinner Tomb

Chapter 15 The Loudons' Zenith

Marmoset Monkey - 

Derby Arboretum - 

Ridge and Furrow glazing - 

Alton Towers - 

Portraits of John Claudius Loudon - 

Chapter 16 Valedictory

John Claudius Loudon and the rise of Landscape Architecture -

Kensal Green Cemetery - Loudon's Burial Place -  

Afterword by the author

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Ch 1. George Whitefield preaching

Ch 2. George Street in Edinburgh's Neoclassical New Town

Ch 2. Edinburgh New Town

Ch 2. Moray Place Edinburgh

Ch 2. View from Calton Hill Edinburgh

Ch 3. Suttee (wife burning) in East India

Ch 3. The Garden Reach in Calcutta was like an English landscape garden

Ch 4. Blenheim Palace, which Loudon liked better than most of Lancelot Brown's work

Ch 5. Loudon's Ferm Ornée pioneered a landscape approach to agriculture

Ch 6. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow allowed Loudon's advance

Ch 7. Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin, is a fine English Garden in Russia

Ch 7. Peter the Great led Loudon to wonder about autocracy

Ch 8. Buchanan believed he was predestined for heaven

Ch 9. Dean Mahomed broke Loudon's arm in Brighton

Ch 11. Parc Monceau in Paris was planted by a Scot, Thomas Blaikie

Ch 11. Jeremy Bentham, like Loudon, had a utilitarian approach to urban planning

Ch 12. The artist, John Martin, was a witness at the Loudon's wedding

Ch 12. Loudon designed his home-office in Porchester Terrace with a Gardenesque front garden

Ch 12. Jane Loudon and John Claudius Loudon

Ch 13. On his honeymoon, Loudon designed a fabulous glass house for Birmingham Botanical Garden

Ch14. Loudon designed the mysterious Tomb in Pinner

Ch 15. Great Stove Chatsworth: designed by Paxton and inspired by Loudon

Ch 16. The Loudons are buried in Kensal Green