|
Henry Portman
Henry William Portman (1738 – 11 January 1796) was an 18th-century housing developer, the ancestor of the Viscounts Portman. Biography
He was the son and heir of Henry William Berkeley Portman MP (died 1761), by his wife Anne Fitch. His grandfather was William Berkeley (died 1737) of Pylle, Somerset, who had changed his surname, by a private act of Parliament, Portman's Name Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. 22 Pr.), to Portman on becoming heir to his distant cousin Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet (died 1690) of Orchard Portman, Somerset[1]—as well as quartering the Portman arms with his own. He succeeded his father in the estates of Bryanston and Orchard Portman in 1761, and to the Berkeley estates at Pylle on the death of his aunt Lady Burland. He developed 200 acres (0.81 km2) of meadow in London (between Oxford Street and the present site of Regent's Canal) he had inherited from his Tudor ancestor Sir William Portman, turning it into the Portman Estate. He began issuing its first building leases in 1755, and building began in 1764 with Portman Square, which was to owe its popularity to buildings by Robert Adam and James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. Marriage and issueOn 20 January 1766, he married Anne Wyndham, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, of Dinton House, Wiltshire, by whom he had two sons and three daughters.
References
External links
|
||||||||||||||||
Portal di Ensiklopedia Dunia
