horace walpole wrote to lady ossory: ""your dryads must go into black gloves, madam, their father-in-law, lady nature’s second husband, is dead!"". brown was buried in the churchyard of st. peter and st. paul, the parish church of brown's small estate at fenstanton manor. he left an estate of approximately £40,000, which included property in cambridgeshire, huntingdonshire and lincolnshire. his eldest daughter bridget married the architect henry holland. brown sent two of his sons to eton. one of them, lancelot brown the younger, became the mp for huntingdon. his son john joined the royal navy and rose to become an admiral.