James Burton (property developer)

rdf:langString James Burton (property developer)

rdf:langString James Burton

rdf:langString James Burton

rdf:langString St Leonards-on-Sea, England

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rdf:langString Pyramidal Tomb of James Burton and Burton family at St Leonards-on-Sea, England.

rdf:langString William Haliburton

rdf:langString Mary Johnson

rdf:langString *Bloomsbury *Regent Street *Regent Street St. James *St. James *Swallow Street *Regent's Park *Russell Square *Bedford Square *Bloomsbury Square *Tavistock Square *Chester Terrace *Cornwall Terrace *York Terrace *Clarence Terrace *St Leonards-on-Sea

rdf:langString ""He [Burton] was no ordinary builder. He could have put up an imposing and beautifully proportioned building, correct in every constructional detail, from the roughest of sketches tossed patronizingly at him by a "gentleman architect"".

rdf:langString "James Burton became adept at relieving the monotony of long residential terraces by allowing their central blocks to project slightly from the surfaces to each side, and by bringing forward, too, the houses at each end. [...] The ironwork in a classical style in James Burton's Bloomsbury terraces was, and often still is, particularly fine, though mass produced".

rdf:langString *George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield *Thomas Chandler Haliburton *Lord Haliburton *Henry Marley Burton

rdf:langString Architectural historian Guy Williams, about James Burton , in 1990.

rdf:langString Lieutenant-Colonel James Burton (né James Haliburton; 29 July 1761 – 31 March 1837) was the most successful property developer of Regency and of Georgian London, in which he built over 3000 properties in 250 acres. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contends that Burton was 'the most successful developer in late Georgian London, responsible for some of its most characteristic architecture'. James built most of Bloomsbury (including Bedford Square, Russell Square, Bloomsbury Square, Tavistock Square, and Cartwright Gardens), and St John's Wood, Regent Street, Regent Street St. James, Waterloo Place, St. James's, Swallow Street, Regent's Park (including its Inner Circle villas in addition to Chester Terrace, Cornwall Terrace, Clarence Terrace, and York Terrace). James also financed and built the projects of John Nash at Regent's Park (most of which were designed by James's son Decimus Burton, rather than by Nash) to the extent that the Commissioners of Woods described James, not Nash, as 'the architect of Regent's Park'. James also developed the town of St Leonards-on-Sea, which is now part of Hastings. James Burton was a member of London high society during the Georgian era and during the Regency era. He was an early member of the Athenaeum Club, London, whose Clubhouse his company built to a design by his son Decimus Burton, who was the Club's 'prime member'. James was a friend of Princess Victoria (the future Queen Victoria), and of the Duchess of Kent. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers, and Sheriff of Kent. James's children included the Egyptologist James Burton; the physician Henry Burton; and the architect Decimus Burton. He was the grandfather of Constance Mary Fearon, who was the founder of the Francis Bacon Society. The Burtons' London mansion, The Holme of Regent's Park (which was built by James's company to a design by Decimus Burton) was described by 20th century architectural critic Ian Nairn as 'a definition of Western civilization in a single view'. Burton also built the Burtons' Tonbridge mansion Mabledon.