The ‘English Mozart’ dies aged 22 in boating tragedy
An aspiring young landscape gardener named Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown is said to have visited Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire in 1741 (where he certainly returned in 1771), and set in train a number of changes to the layout of the estate surrounding it. These included creating a ten-acre lake, which 37 years later had tragic consequences for English music. There, on 5 August, 1778, the
