| 词条 | Maggie Keswick Jencks |
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| name = Maggie Keswick Jencks | image = Maggie Jencks statue @ Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh.jpg | alt = Statue of Maggie Jencks at Maggie's Centre in Edinburgh | caption = Statue of Maggie Jencks at Maggie's Centre in Edinburgh | birth_name = Maggie Keswick | birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|10|10}} | birth_place = Cowhill Tower, Holywood, Dumfriesshire, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|07|08|1941|10|10}} | death_place = London, England | nationality = Scottish | other_names = | occupation = Writer Artist Garden designer | years_active = 1978–1995 | spouse = Charles Jencks }}Margaret (Maggie) Keswick Jencks (10 October 1941 – 8 July 1995)[1] was a Scottish writer, artist and garden designer who co-founded Maggie's Centres with her husband Charles Jencks.[2] Early lifeMargaret Keswick was born at Cowhill Tower near Holywood in the county of Dumfriesshire in Scotland[2] the only child of Sir John Keswick and Clare Elwes.[1] Maggie's father was taipan of Jardine Matheson, the influential Scottish–Chinese trading company. The family spent time in Hong Kong and Shanghai as well as the UK.[3] Keswick was educated in England and read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. After working in fashion, she studied at the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 she published The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture. Career and legacyIn 1978, she married as his second wife, Charles Jencks, writer and landscape artist, with whom she founded the first Maggie's Centres in Edinburgh, which opened in 1996. A bust of Jencks is on display in the Hall of Heroes of the National Wallace Monument in Stirling. Publications
References1. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Dingwall|first1=Christopher|editor1-last=Ewan|editor1-first=Elizabeth|editor2-last=Innes|editor2-first=Sue|editor3-last=Reynolds|editor3-first=Siân|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women From the Earliest Times to 2004|date=2006|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|location=Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-748-62660-1|page=196|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/biographical-dictionary-of-scottish-women-from-the-earliest-times-to-2004/oclc/938839302/viewport|oclc=938839302}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Jencks, Maggie Keswick}}2. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Saxon|first1=Wolfgang|title=Maggie Keswick, 53, Expert on Chinese Gardens|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/15/obituaries/maggie-keswick-53-expert-on-chinese-gardens.html|work=The New York Times|date=15 July 1995}} 3. ^{{cite news|last1=Kellaway|first1=Kate|title=Maggie's centres: how one woman's vision is changing cancer treatment|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/feb/20/maggie-keswick-jencks-centres-cancer-design|work=The Guardian|date=19 February 2011}} 20 : 1941 births|1995 deaths|People from Dumfries and Galloway|British people of Scottish descent|British people of English descent|20th-century women|20th-century women writers|20th-century Scottish writers|20th-century British writers|20th-century British artists|20th-century artists|20th-century women artists|British landscape and garden designers|Scottish philanthropists|British philanthropists|Deaths from cancer|Deaths from cancer in England|Deaths from cancer in the United Kingdom|Keswick family|20th-century philanthropists |
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