ice; continuing to do so after his father’s collaboration with Nash ended acrimoniously around 1800. A younger son, George Stanley Repton, also worked with him.
Retirement and later life
He retired in 1814, three years after a carriage accident that forced him to use a wheelchair thereafter. In retirement he produced a book, with his son J. Adey Repton, detailing his approach to landscape gardening; Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1816). The book adopts the phrase “landscape gardening” to express his theory that the art requires “…the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener…” He also discussed in detail the relationship between the landscape and the main estate house. To be able to provide visual representations of proposed improvements, he used a system of sliding panels depicting before and after views. He published two other major works on garden design: Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795), Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1803). He authored a number of other minor works. Taken together with his Red Books, these books are an important part of his legacy to landscape design today.
 John Palmer (1742-1818), prominent Bath theatre owner and MP, revised the country’s system of mail coaches that led to the post office reforms responsible for the foundation of an efficient mail delivery service. Mayor of Bath and Comptroller General of the Post Office
 He collaborated with Sir James Edward Smith MD (1759-1828). Smith, a botanist, was the son of a wealthy Norwich wool merchant. He founded and was responsible for the early development of the Linnean Society of London. He was the author of a number of prominent works on botany.
 There is a permanent Repton exhibition at Sheringham Park, Norfolk, including a facsimile of his Red Book for this place
 H Repton An Inquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening, with some Observations on its Theory and Practice (1806) and quoted in Jason Perry Humphry Repton