Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough, was an English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener. She married the rising politician Robert Knight in 1727, but he banished her to his e
Portrait of Lady Luxborough by Maria Verelst
Her mother, née Angelica Pelissary or Pillesary
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough
…the invention, of the word "shrubbery". She was a prominent member of the Warwickshire Coterie, a group of poet friends including the gardener and poet William Shenstone, who had developed his own ferme ornée at The Leasowes in Halesowen, Shropshire. She remained married to her husband, but died before his final elevations…
Portrait by Edward Alcock, 1760
The view from the ruined Halesowen Priory towards The Leasowes (on the crest of the hill on the right).