Talk:Lee and Kennedy

"Lord Bolton at Chiswick"
Lewis Kennedy was "gardener to Lord Bolton at Chiswick", ca 1740s. All the sources repeat this, copying one another, from George William Johnson, A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and Critical, 1829:216: "...in conjunction with Kennedy, then gardener to Lord Bolton at Chiswick, Lee commenced the Business of a Nurseryman...". I confess I can't actually identify "Lord Bolton" or his garden at Chiswick, mentioned in every source just in that way, without further hints. Perhaps no one else has either. Was there a "Lord Bolton" in the 1740s? Thomas Orde-Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton, his title of Baron (1797) possibly graciously extended into the past when he was mentioned in the 1820s, was married in 1778 to Jean Mary Browne-Powlett, natural daughter of the 5th D. of Bolton. But whether Thomas Orde, latterly Lord Bolton, had a villa at Chiswick or not, he's a generation too young. Could the 5th Duke of Bolton have been miscalled a Lord Bolton in G.W. Johnson's History? it scarcely seems possible. --Wetman (talk) 03:14, 29 August 2010 (UTC)