West Wycombe House, Buckinghamshire, England

West Wycombe House, Buckinghamshire, England. Neoclassical house, mausoleum and church built in the 18th century by Sir Francis Dashwood, rake and politician, founder of the Dilettanti Society and Hellfire Club. Home of Sir George Henry Dashwood, slave owner in the West Indies (353 enslaved people in Barbados). 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

18th Century Barbados Buckinghamshire Enslaved Mausoleum Neoclassical Palladian Pediment Portico Rake Slave Owner Slave Trade West Indies

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