Frederick Baron von Zandt

Friedrich, Freiherr von Zandt (1785 – 5 March 1842) was a Prussian Hussar colonel and landowner who served as chamberlain to the King of Bavaria.

Early life Zandt was born in 1785 and was from Würzburg, Germany. After his death, the property was developed into a garden square by his widow in 1844, who named it Ovington Square after their house in Ovington, Hampshire. The houses surrounding the green were built from 1844 to 1850 by W.W. Pocock. While protected under the Garden Square Act and maintained under the Kensington Improvement Act, both from 1851, responsibility for the garden passed to Trustees following a settlement made by Sir John Dyer, 12th Baronet in 1912. Before von Zandt, the castle and garden had been owned by the Wittelsbach family who acquired it after secularization in 1803. The property remained in the von Zandt family until the death of the last male heir, Baron Franz Joseph von Zandt, who drowned in the castle pond in 1951, after which it was sold to the von Hessberg family. In 1975, the Free State of Bavaria acquired the property and restored it, and today is administered by the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes. They lived at Ovington House in Hampshire which had been built for Elizabeth's father.

Baron von Zandt died unexpectedly at Seehof on 5 March 1842,