John Adey Repton

From 1796 to 1800 he was assistant to John Nash of Carlton House, the great London architect, and he then joined his father at Hare Street near Romford, Essex preparing architectural designs as adjuncts to landscape gardening.

Subsequently he restored the Earl De La Warr's seat of Buckhurst Park, near Tunbridge Wells.

Another curious paper, "on the beard and the mustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century," which was read before the Society of Antiquaries, but not published, was printed at Repton's expense in 1839 (London, 8vo).

In 1820 he displayed his antiquarian learning in the production of an "olden-style romance", entitled A trewe Hystorie of the Prince Radapanthus, of which he printed eighty copies in a very small size.

Many articles by him appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine from 1795 and in the British Archæological Association's Journal (cf.