Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan (1900–1996)

English architect, landscape architect, and historian. His contribution to 20th-century thinking on landscapes and gardens has been mainly through his writings, notably The Landscape of Man (1975). However, he also made an impact as a designer, working in a contemplative and poetic vein and frequently incorporating water and sculptures. Representative of his work are the Kennedy Memorial (1965) at Runnymede, where a granite path winds uphill to a memorial stone by an American Scarlet oak; and the Sutton Place gardens, Sussex (1980–84). He was knighted in 1979.

Jellicoe studied at the Architectural Association in London and as early as 1925 co-authored an extensively researched publication The Italian Gardens of the Renaissance. In 1929 he was involved in the founding of the Institute of Landscape Architects, and later of the International Federation of Landscape Architects. His designs show the influence of modern artists, such as Paul Klee and Ben Nicholson, while his information centre and restaurant at Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, built in 1934, reflects the work of German architect Erich Mendelsohn. Other examples of his work are at St Pauls Walden Bury, Hertfordshire (1936–89), and at Schute House garden, Wiltshire (1970–89). He began work on the Moody Historical Gardens at Galveston, Texas, in 1985.