Lady Susan Jellicoe ( Pares; 30 June 1907 – 1 August 1986) was an English plantswoman, photographer, writer, and editor who worked in collaboration with her husband, the landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. Her main interest was in landscape and garden design.

Life

Susan Jellicoe (christened Ursula but known as Susan or Sue) was born in

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on 30 June 1907, the third child of Margaret "Daisy" Ellis ( Dixon; 1879–1964) and Sir Bernard Pares, KBE (1867–1949), a historian and academic known for his work on

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. She was educated at

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, Hammersmith, and the

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, Paris. On 11 July 1936, she married the landscape architect

Geoffrey Jellicoe Sir Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, landscape and garden historian, lecturer and author. His strongest interest was in landscape and gard ...

. During the war she served in the Ministry of Information department that countered enemy propaganda, working on the analysis of aerial reconnaissance photography. From 1945, she worked with her husband, designing planting schemes and taking the photographs for his architectural practice. She was an honorary associate of the

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and helped found the International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA)."A Tribute to Susan Jellicoe", ''Landscape Design'', October 1986. In 1985, she was awarded an honorary degree by the

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faculty of Landscape Architecture.

Writing and editorship

Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe wrote three books together: ''Modern Private Gardens'' (1968), ''Water: The Use of Water in Landscape Architecture'' (1971) and ''The Landscape of Man'' (1975). With Lady Margery Allen, she co-wrote ''The Things We See: Gardens'' (1953), ''The New Small Garden'' (1956) and ''Town Gardens To Live In'' (1977). She was also co-author of ''The Oxford Companion to Gardens'' with Geoffrey Jellicoe, Patrick Goode and Michael Lancaster (1986). With Dame

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and Sheila Haywood, she contributed research and photographs to ''The Gardens of Mughal India: A History and a Guide'' (1972). From 1961 to 1965, Jellicoe edited ''The Observer's'' Gardening Panel. She was editor of the Landscape Institute magazine ''Landscape Design'' for 20 years.

Planting design

* 1956 Planting for Harvey's Store Roofgarden, Guildford, Surrey * 1957–59 Planting for Water Gardens,

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, Hertfordshire * 1959 Planting for Cliveden, Taplow, Buckinghamshire * 1980–86 Planting for Sutton Place Garden, Surrey

Photography

The Susan Jellicoe Photographic Collection
is held by the Museum of Rural English Life at the

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alongside th
Geoffrey Jellicoe Collection

References

External links

Biography of Susan Jellicoe by the Landscape Institute
(written prior to photographic archive moving to MERL).
Biography of Susan Jellicoe - Garden VisitSusan Jellicoe Photographic Collection
at MERL, University of Reading
"Harvey's Store Roofgarden (now House of Fraser)"
Garden Visit
"Jellicoe Water Gardens"
Dacorum Borough Council
Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens The Garden History SocietyRestoration of the Cliveden Rose Garden by the National TrustOxford Dictionary of National Biography
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