Sezincote House, Gloucestershire, England

Sezincote House, Gloucestershire, England. Georgian Neo-Mughal-style house designed by architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell, landscaped by Humphry Repton, built in 1805. The house with copper-covered dome was owned by Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet, East India Company official, banker and slave owner in Mauritius (52 enslaved). The architect's son also owned 10 plantations in Jamaica (1, 998 enslaved). Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris's Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880

1st Baronet Alexander Francis Lydon Banker Baxter Process Benjamin Fawcett Colour Woodblock Enslaved Great Britain Mansion House Mauritius Pile Plantation Privilege Reverend Francis Orpen Morris Slave Owner Slave Trade Stately Home William Mackenzie

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