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Dame Agnes Lowndes Jekyll, ( Graham; 12 October 1861 – 28 January 1937) was a Scottish-born British artist, writer and
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. The daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for
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(1865–1874) and patron of the
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, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended
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.


Family

Agnes Lowndes Graham married Herbert Jekyll (later Sir Herbert Jekyll, KCMG), a soldier, public servant and wood-carver, and brother of the noted garden designer, writer and artist,
Gertrude Jekyll Gertrude Jekyll ( ; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British Horticulture, horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United Sta ...
. They lived at Munstead House in
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. Their children were: # Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, GBE, DStJ (1887–1973); married first, in 1911, to the Hon. Francis McLaren, M.P. (killed 1917 in the Great War); secondly, in 1922, to Colonel B. C. Freyberg, V.C., later Lord Freyberg (1889–1963), and had issue by both husbands. # Pamela Margaret (1889–1943); married 1908 the Right Hon. Reginald McKenna (died 1943), and had issue. # Francis Walter Jekyll (1882-1965). He is commemorated on the Jekyll family memorial at Busbridge Church, Surrey, England.


Damehood

Agnes Jekyll was created a
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(DBE) in 1918 for her public works. She first published ''Kitchen Essays'' (1922) in ''
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'', reprinted in 2001 by
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.
Kitchen Essays
' at Persephone Books; accessed 28 November 2014.
File:Agnes Jekyll gravestone in St John the Baptist's church, Busbridge.jpg, Agnes Jekyll's gravestone File:Jekyll family memorial in St John the Baptist's church, Busbridge.jpg, Jekyll family memorial in
Busbridge Busbridge is a village in the civil parish of Godalming, in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England that adjoins the town of Godalming. It was until the Tudor period often recorded as Bushbridge and was a manor and hamlet of Godalming unt ...
churchyard File:Herbert Jekyll gravestone in St John the Baptist's church, Busbridge.jpg, Herbert Jekyll's gravestone


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External links


''The Guardian'' reference
accessed 28 November 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jekyll, Agnes 1861 births 1937 deaths Alumni of King's College London British philanthropists British writers Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire People from Godalming Place of birth missing Wives of knights