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Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, Esquire, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia, née Hammersley. In 1848 her family left London and moved to Bramley House in Surrey. [3] She never married and had no children.
His voluminous research about the Jekyll family is in the Surrey History Centre. Her older sister, Caroline (‘Carrie’, 1837-1928), with her husband Frederic Eden, created a remarkable garden in Venice, The Garden of Eden, which, after many vicissitudes, is now owned by a foundation of the late Austrian painter, Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Family Background. The Darling of all Fair Traders. Early Years. Young Adulthood. Garden Design. Later Life. Chronology. The Lutyens Association. Her Lasting Achievements. LUTYENS. Overview. Seeing the work of Lutyens. ARTS & CRAFTS. Origins & Overview. William Morris. Influence on Gertrude Jekyll. MORE.. William Robinson.
Gertrude Jekyll was an English landscape architect who was the most successful advocate of the natural garden and who brought to the theories of her colleague William Robinson a cultivated sensibility he lacked. Born of a prosperous family, Jekyll was educated in music and painting and travelled in.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
One of the twentieth century's foremost British garden designers, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) created around 350 gardens in England and abroad. The Formal Garden she created at Hestercombe...
Gertrude Jekyll was a leading horticulturist from the last decades of the 19th century through the first three decades of the 20th century. Born to an affluent and well-connected English family, she pursued a number of artistic interests until, nearly 50 years old, she was encouraged by failing eyesight to curtail such activities as painting.
Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer and author, was born on 2 November 1843 in London, the fifth of seven children of Edward Jekyll and his wife, Julia, née Hammersley.
