Sir Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English

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, landscape architect,

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, landscape and garden historian, lecturer and author. His strongest interest was in landscape and

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. As a designer, he often included "his distinctive signature characteristics, such as

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, weirs, bridges, viewing platforms and associated planting by Jellicoe's wife, Susan," as at the

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water gardens he designed for this new town in the late 1950s. Fittingly, the

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he designed in the 1970s for the

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's gardens at

RHS Wisley RHS Garden Wisley is a garden run by the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley, Surrey, south of London. It is one of five gardens run by the society, the others being Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall, Rosemoor, and Bridgewater (which opened on 18 May 2 ...

to display waterlilies was later renamed the "Jellicoe Canal" as a memorial.

Life

Jellicoe was born in

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the younger son of Florence Waterson (''née'' Waylett) and her husband, George Edward Jellicoe, a publisher's manager, and later publisher. He studied at the

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in London in 1919 and won a

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for Architecture in 1923, which enabled him to research his first book ''Italian Gardens of the Renaissance'' with John C. Shepherd. This pioneering study did much to re-awaken interest in this great period of landscape design and through its copious photographic illustrations publicized the then perilously decayed condition of many of the gardens. In 1929 he was a founding member of the Landscape Institute and from 1939 to 1949 he was its President. In 1948, he became the founding President of the

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(IFLA). From 1954 to 1968 he was a member of

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and from 1967 to 1974 a Trustee of

Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

. Jellicoe taught at the

University of Greenwich , mottoeng = "To learn, to do, to achieve" , former_name = Woolwich Polytechnic(1890–1970)Thames Polytechnic(1970–1992) , established = , type = Public university , budget = £214.9 million (2020) , administrative_staff = , chancel ...

from 1979 to 1989. He came as a lecturer and visiting critic, usually on six occasions a year. On 11 July 1936, he married Susan Pares (1907–1986), the daughter of Margaret Ellis (Daisy), ''née'' Dixon (1879–1964) and Sir Bernard Pares KBE (1867–1949), the historian and academic known for his work on Russia. He died in Devon, of heart failure, on the 17 July 1996. He was cremated at

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. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/6) with Geoffrey Jellicoe in 1996 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the

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.National Life Stories, 'Jellicoe, Geoffrey (1 of 5) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1996
Retrieved 10 April 2018

Design projects

Note: All locations below are in England unless stated otherwise. *1934–36 Caveman Restaurant, Cheddar Gorge, Somerset *1934–39 Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire *1935 Plan for Calverton Colliery,

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*1936 The Great Mablethorpe Plan, Lincolnshire *1942 Houses for munitions workers at

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, Wales *1945 " Corbusian" plan for

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(since 1967, part of Milton Keynes) *1947 Plan for

, Hertfordshire *1951–52 East Housing Site,

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, Poplar *1952 Church Hill Memorial Garden, Walsall, West Midlands *1956 Harvey's Store roof garden, Guildford, Surrey *1957–59 Water Gardens,

, Hertfordshire *1959

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Rose Garden,

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, Buckinghamshire *1955–68 Glass Age Development Committee, sponsored by Pilkington Glass with Edward D. Mills and

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& Partners. Projects included Motopia, the Crystal Span Bridge, plans for Soho, Sea City and others. *1964–65 Kennedy Memorial Garden,

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, Surrey *1970–90 Shute House, Donhead St Mary,

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– extensive gardens, his last work, his favourite, and considered to be his finest *1972–90

St Paul's Walden Bury St. Paul's Walden Bury is an English country house and surrounding gardens in the village of St Paul's Walden in Hertfordshire. The house is a Grade II* listed, and the gardens Grade I. A home of the Bowes-Lyon family, it is possibly the site of ...

, Hertfordshire – garden restoration and additions *1979–89 Hartwell House Garden, Buckinghamshire *1980–86 Sutton Place Garden, Surrey *1984

Moody Gardens Moody Gardens is an educational tourist destination, with a golf course and hotel in Galveston, Texas which opened in 1986. The non-profit destination uses nature to educate and excite visitors about conservation and wildlife. Moody Gardens featu ...

, Galveston, Texas, USA

Books and other publications

* ''Italian Gardens of the Renaissance'' (with J.C. Shepherd) (1926) * ''Baroque Gardens of Austria'' (1932) * ''The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, etc.'' (1933) * ''Garden Decoration & Ornament for Smaller Houses'' (1936) * ''Gardens of Europe'' (1937) * ''Report accompanying an Outline Plan for Guildford prepared for the Municipal Borough Council'' (1945) * ''Studies in Landscape Design'' (1960) * ''Motopia: A Study in the Evolution of Urban Landscape'' (1961) * ''A Landscape Plan for Sark'' (1967) * ''The Landscape of Man'' (1975) * ''Blue Circle Cement Hope Works Derbyshire'' (1980?) * ''The Guelph Lectures on Landscape Design'' (1983) * ''The Oxford Companion to Gardens'' (1986) * ''The Landscape of Civilisation'' (1989) * ''The Studies of a Landscape Designer over 80 years'' (c.1993) * ''Gardens & Design, Gardens of Europe'' (1995)

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Portrait by Derry Moore, 1992
At the National portrait Gallery – Accessed November 2021
Portrait by Tara Heinemann, 1984
At the National portrait Gallery – Accessed November 2021
Portrait by Anne-Katrin Purkiss, 1990
At the National portrait Gallery – Accessed November 2021 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jellicoe, Geoffrey 1900 births 1996 deaths English landscape and garden designers English landscape architects English gardeners English garden writers British garden writers Prix de Rome (Britain) winners Victoria Medal of Honour (Horticulture) recipients Golders Green Crematorium Royal Academicians People from Chelsea, London

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