William Emes

Details of his early life are not known but in 1756 he was appointed head gardener to Sir Nathaniel Curzon at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire.

During his time at Kedleston he had started to alter the earlier formal nature of the park and had constructed the upper lake.

He created flower gardens adjacent to the house at Sandon Hall, anticipating the later work of Humphry Repton.

[1] His wife died in 1789 and Emes then moved to Hampshire taking a lease of Elvetham Park from Sir Henry Gough-Calthorpe.

He later moved to London where he died at Vicarage House, St Giles Cripplegate, the home of his daughter, Sarah.