The Claudians is available for pre-order from Amazon Kindle >>
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).
Somers, Buchanan and Loudon Family Trees -
John Claudius Loudon: an Appreciation -
Reverend Dr. Claudius Buchanan: an Appreciation -
Enlightenment, Romanticism and War -
The historical canvas 1800-1830 -
Loudon's history of garden design-
Loudon's gardening and architecture magazines -
Edinburgh Old Town and New Town -
Crown Court Church, Covent Garden -
Claudius Buchanan travelled on elephants -
Buchanan at Queen’s College, Cambridge -
Firth of Forth and Calton Hill -
James Sowerby house Mead Place -
Loudon design for Great Tew Farm -
Napoleon's retreat and Loudon's advance -
Tykocin (Tykocyn) Village, Poland -
Belvedere at Frascati: Villa Aldobrandini Garden -
Steamships from Brighton Pier -
Thomas Blaikie Scottish Gardener -
Jeremy Bentham: the father of utilitarian town planning -
John Claudius Loudon’s Breathing Places: Vision for Green Zones in London -
The Mummy by Jane Webb Loudon -
Porchester Terrace: Loudons' Home -
Loudon's Circular Glasshouse design -
Loudon and the term 'landscape architecture' -
Loudon's design for Pinner Tomb -
Portraits of John Claudius Loudon -
John Claudius Loudon and the rise of Landscape Architecture -
Kensal Green Cemetery - Loudon's Burial Place -
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This is The Claudians Companion Homepage
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