Geoffrey Jellicoe

Sir
Geoffrey Jellicoe
CBE RA VMH
Born(1900-10-08)8 October 1900
Chelsea, London, England
Died17 July 1996(1996-07-17) (aged 95)
Lyme Regis, England
Alma materThe Architectural Association
OccupationArchitect
ProjectsJFK Memorial Garden, Runnymede, Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens, Shute House, Sutton Place, Moody Gardens Galveston
The "Jellicoe Canal" at the RHS Garden Wisley, 1970s

Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe CBE RA VMH (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 garden design.[1][2]

As a designer, he often included "his distinctive signature characteristics, such as canals, weirs, bridges, viewing platforms and associated planting by Jellicoe's wife, Susan," as at the Hemel Hempstead water gardens he designed for this new town in the late 1950s.[3] The garden canal he designed in the 1970s for the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at RHS Wisley to display waterlilies was later renamed the "Jellicoe Canal" as a memorial.[4]

  1. ^ "A Biography of Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe". Nightingale Garden Co. Ltd. 2008. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. ^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/40519. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40519. Retrieved 6 December 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Historic England. "Hemel Water Gardens (1001710)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  4. ^ RHS: "Jellicoe Canal"