Person    | Male  Born 8/10/1900  Died 17/7/1966

Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

Categories: Gardens / Agriculture

Landscape architect. Born Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe at 70 Wynnstay Gardens, Chelsea. Educated at the Architectural School in London, where he later became principal. Founding member of the Landscape Institute. His works include the gardens at Sandringham and Chequers. Knighted in 1979. Died at the Check House Nursing Home, Beer Street, Seaton, Devon.

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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe 1900 - 1966, landscape architect lived here 1936 - 1984...

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Henry Edmunds

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1 memorial
Queens Wood, Highgate

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Shaheed Minar martyrs

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Group, Tragedy, Bengal, Indian Sub-continent

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Bellot memorial obelisk

Bellot memorial obelisk

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Emmeline Pankhurst monument

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