Boode, Andreas Christian (1763 -1844)

Andreas Christian Boode, the son of a wealthy Dutch father, Johan Barend Christoffer Frederik Boode, left his sugar plantations in Demerara, Dutch Guiana, and came to England in the early 1820s, becoming a naturalized British subject in 1823. He was married to Phoebe, daughter of Rev. T. Dannett, rector of Liverpool. Widowed in 1825, two years later he bought Lucknam Park in Wiltshire for himself and his two young children. Boode had extensive modifications carried out on Lucknam, where he lived until his death in 1844 at the age of 81.