George Warren, LVFJ-S8S

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George Warren was born in Kew in 1698 and died in Kew on 22 August 1755. He was Master carpenter at Kew Garden and worked for Frederick Prince of Wales, in collaboration with his brother-in-law Thomas Howlett (Brother of his spouse), Master bricklayer. The work “Magnae Britanniae Noticia, or the Present State of Great Britain; with diverse Remarks upon the Ancient State thereof" by John Chamberlayne, Esq. – London M DCC XLVIII - To which is added a complete List of their Royal Highnesses in the Prince of Wales Household; as also those of their Royal Highnesses, the Duke of Cumberland, the Princess Amelia, and the Princess Caroline - Commissioners of his Majesty’s Board of Works, and all the officers thereunto belonging" -Book III of Great-Britain, 139 Artificers by Patent” “Her Majesty has been pleased to grant unto Thomas Howlett and Joseph Pratt, the Office of Master Bricklayer of all his Majesty’s Works, Buildings and Reparations in England (during Pleasure), in the Room of Thomas Churchill, deceased”. Source:http://www.londongazette.co.uk/issues/7541/pages/2/page.pdf  dated 14 September 1736, refers to the royal patent granted to Thomas Howlett, brother in law & collaborator of George Warren at Kew Garden.  In his book "Palaces and Parks of Richmond and Kew – vol. II : Richmond Lodge and Kew Palaces” – page 82, John Cloake wrote about the White House, a famous palace at the time, unfortunately demolished in 1802 for reasons still unknown today.  The original park had now been divided into a garden, immediately South of the house, and four closes called collectively Warren Field. There were two more closes of land in the old Tinderland Furlong, separated from the park and from each other by land that belonged to Thomas Howlett and George Harrison respectively. To the south, all the rest of the Kew Field and the top end of Parkshot was divided into 14 closes. The was also Somer’s close on the north side of the Green, two closes at “the Alders” (the old Aldey) by the Mortlake road, and some twelve acres of meadow by the riverside. By the south side of Kew Green were four houses belonging to the estate, one larger and two smaller ones grouped together by the corner of the Warren Field and one, a little further the east, in which a school has been set up and which bore the ominous name of "Hell”. Prince Frederick wasted little time in setting about improving his property. William Kent was employed to carry out the works on the house. If the surmise that Molyneux had recently rebuilt the Capells’ old timber house is correct, it seems unlikely that it would have been entirely rebuilt again so soon after. However, Sir William Chambers says that both the north and south fronts were "executed from the designs of the late Mr Kent and under his inspection”; and the probably remodeled much of the interior, so it was largely new house that was completed by 1735 at the cost of over £8,000. It was plastered on the outside; and called the “White House”, in distinction from the red brick Dutch House. The accounts for the works list individual payments to the various workmen (or masters) concerned, two of the chief of whom were Kew residents; Thomas Howlett, the master bricklayer and George Warren, the master carpenter. A few details of the work emerge from the accounts…..” Source: John Cloake "Palaces and Parks of Richmond and Kew – vol. II : Richmond Lodge and Kew Palaces” – page 82, quoted in Philippe Jacquet's lapommerage family tree on Ancestry:http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/58954005/person/40160117734/fact/3... research by Phillippe Jacquet ttp://www.warrenfamilyhistory.com/Docs/Our%20Warrens%20in%20England.htm

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