Sambrooke Freeman

Sambrooke Freeman FRSA (aka Sambrook Freeman, c.1721–1782) was a member of the prominent Freeman family of Fawley Court near Henley-on-Thames, England. He was a Member of Parliament, for Pontefract in Yorkshire from 1754–61 and Bridport in Dorset from 1768–74.

Sambrooke Freeman was the son of John (Cooke) Freeman, a successful businessman. His first name derived from the Sambrooke family. Due to the Freeman family's rising fortune, Sambrooke Freeman was educated at University College, Oxford, graduating in 1739, followed by an expensive Grand Tour of Italy on two trips over nearly four years from 1744.

Freeman lived at Fawley Court, a large house close to the River Thames north of Henley-on-Thames and just in Buckinghamshire. He inherited the house on the death of his father in 1752. Capability Brown was commissioned to work on the grounds of the estate surrounding the house between 1764 and 1766. Freeman also had the house remodelled by the architect James Wyatt during the early 1770s is a Neoclassical style. Wyatt also designed the "temple" (a fishing lodge) on Temple Island on the river close to Fawley Court in 1771 for Freeman, with Etruscan-style murals inside.

Edward Cooper sold Phyllis Court to Sambrooke Freeman in 1768. He also bought the manors of Henley and Remenham in the same year.

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