The lives of the British architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London, Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 412
was practically completed in 1786, andChambers seems then to have rested on the laurels he hadgained by the undertaking. In 1771 he had been knightedby George IH., on the occasion of receiving from the Kingof Sweden the Order of the Polar Star, in return forhaving sent that monarch a set of… … SOMERSET HOUSE To face p. 320 SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS 321 which has carried the sovereign ever since on great occa-sions of state. In the remarkable Hterary and artistic society of hisday, a society that included such men as Burke andGarrick, Goldsmith, Reynolds, and Johnson, Chamberswas a prominent…
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