Eastwick Park

Eastwick Park was built by the French Huguenot architect Nicholas Dubois (c. 1665–1735) between 1726 and 1728 for Sir Conyers Darcy and his wife,[citation needed] Elizabeth, daughter of John Rotherham of Much Waltham, Essex and the recent widow of Thomas Howard, 6th Lord Howard of Effingham.

[1] James Lawrell senior, an engineer of the East India Company who had become a financial official in the Bengal Presidency,[2] settled at Eastwick.

[4][5][6] Lawrell and his wife were in the Brighton circle of the Prince of Wales in the 1780s, and figure in an anecdote of one of his pranks, circulated by Court Dewes.

[7] Their daughter Georgiana Lawrell (born c.1783), who married George Augustus Quentin, became later a major figure of Regency-period gossip.

[8] In 1801, Eastwick Park was sold by Richard Howard, the 4th and last Earl of Effingham (of the first creation), to the trustees of James Lawrell junior, the eldest son.