... 3 men found out the ideas of Vitruvius, whose ideas had been later revived by Palladio in Italy and Jones in Britain. The History of Danson Although Danson House is situated in 200 acres of land at present, it was previously in as much as 600 acres of land under the ownership of John Boyd. John Boyd bought the last of the lease from Styleman's descendants in 1759, but still had to pay £100 a year to the charity set up under Styleman's will. In 1761 Boyd offered £100 annuity to the charity in exchange for the charity's half of the freehold. An act of parliament was needed to accomplish this and in 1762 the "Styleman Act" was passed. It was then that over the next forty years that Boyd enlarged the estate to an area of around 600 acres. Boyd approached a young architect, Robert Taylor, and he was chosen to ...

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