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THE CLAUDIANS by Tom Turner

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

John Claudius Loudon portrait Jane Webb Loudon Dr Claudius Buchanan

THE CLAUDIANS

Portraits of John Claudius Loudon, Jane Webb Loudon, Claudius Buchanan 

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The Claudians 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 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. Over 300 pages have been published. Below, there are links to 70+ pages and to chapter-specific pages with the other links.

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 -

Corrections to the birth dates of John Loudon, Claudius Buchanan and Jane Webb 

Why is John Martin's painting of The Plains of Heaven used on the cover of The Claudians?

- See more info Introduction,

 

Chapter 1 Somers and Buchanans

The Wigtown Martyrs -

Glenochar Ferm Toun -

Auchindrain Ferm Toun -

Coal mining in Scotland -

Spa Fields Pleasure Garden -

Dunstaffnage Castle -

- See more info Chapter 1: Somers and Buchanans,

Chapter 2 Loudons

Joseph Banks Soho Square - 

Loudon's first article, on Public Squares in London -

Kerse Hall Gogar -

Edinburgh Old Town and New Town -

Commercial Academy 20 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh - 

North Bridge Edinburgh -

Dr Andrew Coventry -

- See more info   Chapter 2: Loudons

Chapter 3 Indian mission

Reverend John Newton - 

Crown Court Church, Covent Garden - 

Storm in the South Atlantic -

Claudius Buchanan travelled on elephants - 

Garden Reach, Calcutta

Buchanan at Queen’s College, Cambridge - 

- See more info Chapter 3: Indian Mission,

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

- See more info  Chapter 4: Picturesque Gardens

Chapter 5 Farming landscapes

Ffestiniog Village -

Loudon design for Great Tew Farm -

Jali screen  -

Wife burning suttee -

Buchanan's predestination 

- See more info Chapter 5: Farming Landscapes,

Chapter 6 Prussian gardens

Napoleon's retreat and Loudon's advance - 

Lazienki Palace Garden

- See more info  Chapter 6: Prussian Gardens,

Chapter 7 Russian gardens

Tykocin (Tykocyn) Village, Poland - 

Winter in St Petersburg

- See more info  Chapter 7: Russian Gardens

Chapter 8 Buchanan's predestination

Buchanan grave inscriptions -

- See more info Chapter 8: Buchanan’s Destiny,

Chapter 9 Italian gardens

Loudon’s Grand Tour - 

Belvedere at Frascati: Villa Aldobrandini Garden - 

Gondo Village

- See more info  Chapter 9: Italian Gardens,

Chapter 10 Gardenesque Paris

Steamships from Brighton Pier - 

Thomas Blaikie Scottish Gardener -

Gardenesque planting design - 

- See more info  Chapter 10: Gardenesque Gardens

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

- See more info Chapter 11: Utilitarian Landscapes,

Chapter 12 Marriage 

The Mummy by Jane Webb Loudon - 

Porchester Terrace: Loudons' Home -

- See more info  Chapter 12: Marriage,

Chapter 13 Landscape Architecture

 The Loudons Honeymoon Tour - 

Loudon's Circular Glasshouse design - 

Loudon and the term 'landscape architecture' -

- See more info Chapter 13: Landscape Architecture

Chapter 14 Family reunion

Loudon's design for Pinner Tomb

- See more info Chapter 14: Family Reunion

Chapter 15 The Loudons' Zenith

Marmoset Monkey - 

Derby Arboretum - 

Ridge and Furrow glazing - 

Alton Towers - 

Portraits of John Claudius Loudon - 

- See more info Chapter 15: Loudon’s Zenith,

Chapter 16 Valedictory

John Claudius Loudon and the rise of Landscape Architecture -

Kensal Green Cemetery - Loudon's Burial Place -

- See more info Chapter 16: Valedictory,

Afterword by the author

- See info Afterword.

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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