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Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey (Alan)
(b London, 8 Oct 1900). English landscape designer, urban planner, architect and writer. He was educated in London at the Architectural Association School (1919–24). His book Italian Gardens of the Renaissance (with J. C. Shepherd), derived from student research, was published in 1925, the year in which he qualified as an architect. He soon established his practice in London. In the 1930s he was instrumental in developing the Institute of Landscape Architects (now the Landscape Institute) as a professional body. He taught at the Architectural Association School (1928–33), becoming its Principal in 1939. His projects of the 1930s include the village plan (1933) for Broadway, Hereford & Worcs, a model document under the Town and Country Planning Act of 1932, and, with Russell Page (1906–85), a pioneer modernist restaurant and visitors’ centre (1934) at Cheddar Gorge, Somerset. Important garden designs of these years include Ditchley Park (1935–9), Oxon, and works for Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berks (1936–9). After World War II Jellicoe received many public commissions for landscape and planning works, such as Hemel Hempstead New Town (1947; Water Gardens completed 1959), Church Hill, Walsall, W. Midlands (1952), and the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, Harwell, Oxon (1960). In 1965 he completed the memorial to John F. Kennedy at Runnymede, Berks. He undertook numerous private garden designs in England until his official retirement in 1979; he was knighted that year. Thereafter he continued to accept selected commissions, notably for the garden (1980–84) at Sutton Place, Guildford, Surrey, two major garden designs for the Italian cities of Modena (1980–84) and Brescia (1983), and designs (1984–8) for the Moody Historical Gardens, Galveston, TX, and for the Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta, GA (see GARDEN, §VIII, 5). His best-known achievement in private garden design is that for Shute House, Donhead St Mary, Wilts, commissioned in 1968. Jellicoe is regarded as one of the leading exponents of 20th-century landscape design, which he claimed will become the art of the whole environment.
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