Talk:John Scandrett Harford

More than one John Scandrett Harford?
Peerage.com give a dob of 1754 and death in 1815 to a John Scandrett Harford living in Blaise Castle. Can there really have been 2? http://thepeerage.com/p43180.htm#i431797 There certainly seems to have been an artist of the name working at least as late as 1817. Anyone have any refs to clarify? hjuk (talk) 11:30, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, scrub that; mystery solved - http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&dq=%22abraham+gray%22+tottenham&hl=en&ei=cAQBTNeHCKWKngPS5dSLDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22abraham%20gray%22%20tottenham&f=false hjuk (talk) 12:16, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

More than one John Scandrett Harford revisited
Actually, I don't think this should have been scrubbed. There were two John Scandrett Harfords, father and son, and I think this article wrongly conflates the two. The father, John Scandrett Harford, was born 1754, died 1815, as evidenced on page 2 of this. The son, John Scandrett Harford was born 1787, (other sources say 1785/6), and died 1866 as evidenced here). I think the father bought the Blaise Estate and built the mansion and the hamlet, while the son built the Picture Room. I think this is supported by Foyle/Pevsner and by Jenkins. And it fits the dates. Plainly the Wikipedia article can't be right re. the purchase as the son would have been an infant of between 2 and 4 years when the estate was purchased in 1789. And it's no more likely right about the hamlet which was built 1810-11. The father was still alive and the son would have been in his 20s. KJP1 (talk) 17:11, 8 April 2017 (UTC)