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Henry Inigo Triggs (1876–1923) was an
English country house architect and designer of
formal garden
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s, and author.
Family life
Harry Benjamin Inigo Triggs was born in
Chiswick, London, on 28 February 1876, to James Triggs, carpet agent, and his wife Celia Anne, née Bryant. The architect
Inigo Jones was a distant relative.
His older brother was
Arthur Bryant Triggs
Arthur Bryant Triggs (30 January 1868 – 9 September 1936) was an Australian grazier and collector.
Family life
Triggs was born in Chelsea, London, the son of James Triggs, carpet agent, and his wife Celia Anne, née Bryant. His younger b ...
(1868–1936), born in
Chelsea
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, who in 1887 emigrated to Australia, becoming a wealthy
New South Wales
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grazier (known as The Sheep King) and collector of art, books and coins.
Career
Triggs designed many formal gardens and later some country houses, mostly in southern England. He specialised in historical research and in re-creating gardens of the past. His books influenced the Italian mode of the Arts and Crafts style in England.
In 1906 he was awarded the
Godwin Bursary, presenting two reports: "The planning of public squares and open spaces" (76 pages), relating to the cities of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Munich, including public monuments and fountains; "Le Petit Palais, Paris" (20 pages), a detailed description of the
Musée des Beaux-Arts building, Avenue Winston Churchill, designed by
Charles Girault
Charles-Louis Girault (27 December 1851 – 26 December 1932) was a French architect.
Biography
Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honoré Daumet at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He received the first Pr ...
and built between 1897 and 1900.
In the 1910s Triggs was in partnership with the architect
William Frederick Unsworth (1851–1912), and his son Gerald Unsworth (1883–1946), in
Petersfield, Hampshire
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. W. F. Unsworth had previously designed the
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
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in
Stratford-upon-Avon in 1879, which was destroyed by fire in 1926 and replaced in 1932 with the present
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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.
In 1919, Triggs was tasked by The Whiteley Homes Trust to plan and supervise the landscaping of the area around
Whiteley Village
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, Walton on Thames, Surrey, constructing tree-lined avenues and turfed walks, with fruiting trees and shrubs and lavender borders. He also designed Cooper's Bridge at
Bramshott and the War Memorial in
Petersfield
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High Street in 1922.
Personal life
In 1907 he married Gladys Claire Hill, sister of Mabel Frances Hill of
Taormina
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, a fashionable resort in Sicily. Triggs designed La Guardiola for his sister-in-law. At this point he wrote ''The Art of Garden Design in Italy''.
In 1910 Triggs bought the property then called Fry's Farm, in
Liphook
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, Hampshire. He re-designed the farmhouse and gardens as his home and renamed it Little Boarhunt, based on a legend about
King John hunting boar in the district. The house is now a
Grade II listed building, being a representative romantic house of the
Arts and Crafts Movement.
Triggs died on 9 April 1923 in Taormina. A memorial tablet is dedicated to him in St Mary's Church,
Bramshott.
Houses
*Little Boarhunt House and gardens
Liphook, Hampshire (1910) including a sunken
Elizabethan garden.
*The Rectory Liphook, Hampshire (1912)
*Rookswood's Windrush Lodge
Nazeing
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Nazeing is ...
, Essex (1913)
*Homefield
Nazeing, Essex
*Fulmer Chase, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Originally known as Stoke Barn, the house and gardens are credited to architect Gerald Unsworth and Inigo Triggs. The gardens include a substantial rock garden and ponds. (circa 1912).
Gardens
*Barrow Court, Somerset (1890)
*
Chillington Hall, Staffordshire (1911)
*
Saighton Grange (no
Abbey Gate College Cheshire (1901)
*Restalls, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire. The home of W F Unsworth, Inigo Triggs' business partner. (circa 1905)
*Garden Hill, Steep, Petersfield. The house was designed by W F Unsworth. The garden is believed to be by Triggs.
*Ashford Chace, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire. near
Petersfield, Hampshire
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, for
Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1912)
*Fulmer Chase, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Originally known as Stoke Barn, the house and gardens are credited to architect Gerald Unsworth and Inigo Triggs. The gardens include a substantial rock garden and ponds. (circa 1912).
Memorials
*Steep War Memorial This was the first village war memorial to be dedicated in the country. It contains the name of Edward Thomas, the Poet. It is listed of Historic Importance Grade II.
*Bedford Park War Memorial, outside
St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park
St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed Church of England parish church in Bedford Park, Chiswick. It was designed by the architect Norman Shaw, who built some of the houses in that area. The church was consecrated in 1880. It is constr ...
, London (c.1920)
*Haslemere War Memorial (c. 1920)
Books
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*''Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones'' (1901) A series of measured drawings and other illustrations together with descriptive notes; a biographical sketch and list of his authentic works, B T Batsford publishing. With
Henry Tanner.
''Formal Gardens in England and Scotland''(1902) Their Planning And Arrangement, Architectural And Ornamental Features, B T Batsford publishing, 63 pages. Republished 1988.
''The Art of Garden Design in Italy''(1906) Longmans publishing, 135 pages. Republished 1942 and 2007.
''Town Planning, Past, Present and Possible''(1909) with 173 illustrations, Methuen & Co, 334 pages. Second edition in 1911.
''Garden Craft in Europe''(1913) C Scribner's Sons publishing, 332 pages. Republished 1933 and 2008.
Sources
*''
RIBA
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'' Journal, 1923, volume 30, page 431 – Obituary.
*''
Country life'', 1995, volume 189, number 43, 26 Oct, pages 58–61 -"Designs for a garden – formal informality" by Diana Baskervyle-Glegg, on Triggs' Edwardian garden designs.
References
External links
Parks and Gardens UK – Harry Inigo Triggs summary recordPlans and drawings by Harry Inigo Triggs(Bridgeman Art Library – 1 September 2010)
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1876 births
1923 deaths
People from Chiswick
Arts and Crafts movement artists
British garden writers
English gardeners
English landscape architects
People from Liphook