Family Trees No.11 : Ralph 1st Duke of Montagu, 2022
Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu 1638-1709 was hugely impressed by the Versailles water gardens of Louis XIV and so in 1685 to re-create the look he hired a Dutch head gardener called Leonard van Der Meulen and worked with him for nearly 25 years, creating lakes, canals and avenues in a network of geometric shapes