In 1728, at the age of 35 and 2 years after his wife's death, he inherited Prideaux Place from his first cousin Edmund Prideaux (d.1728), who died without progeny, the eldest son of John Prideaux by his wife Anne Mallock.Burke's, 1936, p.265 He remodelled both the interior and exterior of the house and landscaped the grounds, adding garden buildings and a wilderness with serpentine paths.Biography by National Trust Collections
