Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

The manor of Hagley was purchased in 1565 by John Lyttelton, whose descendant Sir George Lyttelton (created Lord Lyttelton of Frankley 1756, died 1773), statesman, politician, patron and friend of Pope, Shenstone and Thomson and the dedicatee of Tom Jones, began to landscape the estate in the early 1740s and in the 1750s rebuilt the Hall. The estate remains in the family, the head of which in 1889 acquired the title of Viscount Cobham on the death of the last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.