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Brenda Colvin
Born
Brenda Gwyneth Stewart Colvin

(1897-06-08)8 June 1897
Simla, British India
Died27 January 1981(1981-01-27) (aged 83)
Witney, Oxfordshire, England
NationalityBritish
Occupationlandscape architect

Brenda Colvin CBE (1897–1981) was a British landscape architect, author of standard works in the field and a force behind its professionalisation. She was part of the Colvin family, which had long ties to the British Raj.

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Landscape Institute

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to attend a meeting at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1929. According to Brenda Colvin (who was present) the original intention was to call it the ‘British...

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List of landscape architects

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List of professional gardeners

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architect and garden designer Nigel Colborn (living), garden broadcaster Brenda Colvin (1897–1981), landscape architect and garden designer Herbert Cowley...

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Eggborough power station

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The area covered 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2) and was landscaped by Brenda Colvin into a hill with contours (she was said to have been inspired by Maiden...

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Madeline Agar

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Memorial Playing Fields, designed by Agar in 1921, assisted by her pupil Brenda Colvin. The war memorial is Grade II listed. Agar considered her most important...

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the Playing Fields, designed in 1921 by Madeline Agar, assisted by Brenda Colvin. There is also a memorial plaque on Owler Tor in the Peak District with...

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Registered historic parks and gardens in Ceredigion

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twentieth century. A section of the Penglais campus is one of the very few surviving schemes to have been designed by Brenda Colvin. II* PGW(Dy)47(CER)...

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Anthony du Gard Pasley

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Wells, which he saved from demolition. Pasley studied under Brenda Colvin, then worked for Colvin and Sylvia Crowe. He worked in the design department of...

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1981 in the United Kingdom

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1909) 27 January Roger Burford, screenwriter and novelist (born 1904) Brenda Colvin, landscape architect (born 1897) Cecil Davidge, lawyer and academic...

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Registered historic parks and gardens in Flintshire

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February 2022 Garden Garden A formal garden and forecourt designed by Brenda Colvin as a space for office workers. II PGW(C)77(FLT) Soughton Hall Northop...

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Sylvia Crowe

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plants were still there. In the 1960s, Crowe shared an office with Brenda Colvin, also president of the ILA. In 1964 Crowe prepared a landscape masterplan...

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Metropolitan Public Gardens Association

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Memorial Playing Fields, designed by Madeline Agar in 1921, assisted by Brenda Colvin. The war memorial is Grade II listed. Mitcham Cricket Green, LB Merton...

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Aberystwyth University

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Penglais campus was designed by the well known landscape architect Brenda Colvin and is one of the very few of her schemes to have survived. A number...

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Swanley Horticultural College

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women gardeners at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Later graduates were Brenda Colvin and Sylvia Crowe. Frances Micklethwait was Principal at Swanley in 1922...

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List of public art in the London Borough of Wandsworth

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Vienna Teng

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Brown and The Wayne Brady Show, and opened concerts for Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin, Joan Osborne, India.Arie, Brandi Carlile, Sarah Harmer and Marc Cohn. Although...

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Cobham Hall School

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the Wayback Machine Howard Colvin, "Peter Mills and Cobham Hall" in Colvin and John Harris, The Country Seat1970. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of...

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Alice Thomas Ellis

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Beryl Bainbridge, who worked with Ellis for many years. The author Clare Colvin, in Ellis's obituary in The Guardian, described her skills as an editor:...

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