Wrest Park from the south-west, Silsoe, Bedfordshire mb-code 42-35332472 Gough Square

Gough Square

Showing the eardrum of a three-week old Indian elephant at at natural size

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

8th September 1973

Wrest Park from the south-west, Silsoe, Bedfordshire mb-code 42-35332472 Gough SquareWrest Park from the south west, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, 1924 1926. Wrest Park was built in 1834 1839, inspired by 18th century French chateaux, and is set in over 90 acres of gardens. The house was designed by its owner, Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, an amateur architect who was the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, volume I, 1924 1926.