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Paxton House, Berwickshire

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Formerly the seat of the Paxton family, who became Forman-Home, Milne-Home, and finally Home-Robertson as the direct male lines failed and the inheritance progressed through a female. In 1988, the last laird,
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have restored the Gallery to its original colour scheme. Patrick Home's pictures are now dispersed; a collection from the National Gallery has been hung in their place in the 19th-century manner.
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with an extensive collection of British and European paintings and died before the paintings were unpacked. Later on, Jean Home, who was to inherit the house and the paintings, employed the
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It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a
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In 1852 the wife of David Milne inherited the house and he renamed himself
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In 1780 Patrick Home of Wedderburn returned from his eight-year-long
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Other inhabitants were Alexander Home and his son George Home WS
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Category A listed buildings in the Scottish Borders
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Index


historic house
Paxton
Berwickshire
Scottish Borders
Berwick-upon-Tweed
River Tweed
Prussian
James Adam
John Adam
Robert Adam
Thomas Chippendale
Robert Reid
FRSE
David Milne-Home
John David Home Robertson
National Galleries Scotland
Grand Tour
Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland
Robert Reid
gallery
National Galleries Scotland
Wedderburn Castle
"Robert Reid"
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X
"Paxton House nationalgalleries.org"
ISBN
1-873190-10-7

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