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{{about|the British mansion|Benjamin Chew's mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania|Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)}}
[[Image:Cliveden-2382.jpg|thumb|400px|View looking north from the Ring in the Parterre showing Terrace Pavilion and Clock Tower to the left with Lower Terrace and Borghese Balustrade below]]

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Buckingham pulled down the earlier buildings and chose William Winde as his architect. Winde designed a four-storey house above an arcaded terrace. Today, the terrace is the only feature of Buckingham's house to survive the 1795 fire. Although the Duke's intention was to use Cliveden as a "hunting box" he later housed his mistress Anna, Countess of Shrewsbury there. A contemporary account of Buckingham's antics with Anna is recounted by [[Samuel Pepys]] in his diary of the period.
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==Georgian Cliveden==
===1st Earl of Orkney===
After Buckingham's death in 1687 the house remained empty until the estate was purchased by [[George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney]] in 1696. Orkney became a general in the [[Battle of Blenheim]] (1704) and later governor of [[Virginia]], then an English colony, without ever setting foot on American soil. The Earl employed the architect [[Thomas Archer]] to add two new "wings" to the house, connected by curved corridors. Although an almost ident(contracted; show full)[[Category:Historic house museums in Buckinghamshire]]

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