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Mark Girouard

May 02, 2023

Mark Girouard FSA (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022) was a British architectural historian. He was an authority on the country house, and Elizabethan and Victorian architecture.[1]

Mark Girouard

FSA
Born(1931-10-07)7 October 1931
Died16 August 2022(2022-08-16) (aged 90)
OccupationArchitectural historian
Notable work
  • Elizabethan Architecture
  • Life in the English Country House
  • The Victorian Country House
SpouseDorothy Girouard
Parents
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire —Girouard's pioneering study of Robert Smythson, later revised and reissued as Elizabethan Architecture, established his reputation

Life and career

Girouard was born on 7 October 1931.[2] He was educated at Ampleforth College, read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford,[3] and then worked for the magazine Country Life[1] from about 1958 until 1967, firstly as a writer on architecture and then, from 1964, as its architectural editor.[citation needed] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art from 1975 to 1976 and elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1987.[4] Girouard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011.[5] He was on the board of trustees of The Architecture Foundation from 1992 to 1999[2] and a founder, and the first chairman, of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust.[6][1] He was the grandson of Henry Beresford, 6th Marquess of Waterford through his mother, Lady Blanche Girouard.[1]

His Life in the English Country House won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1978,[7] and the WH Smith Literary Award in 1979.[citation needed]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/92) with Girouard in 2009 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[8]

Photographs by Girouard are held in the Conway Library of Art and Architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and are currently being digitised.[9]

Personal life

Girouard was married to the artist Dorothy Girouard and they lived in Notting Hill Gate, London. Their daughter is the writer Blanche Girouard.[1][10] Girouard died on 16 August 2022, at the age of 90.[11]

Girouard wrote of his ancestral connection to Saul Solomon, a pioneer liberal politician and businessman in Cape Colony, and his wife Georgiana Solomon, a social activist and suffragette. Girouard was descended from Saul's brother Edward, born in 1820 in Saint Helena, who spent 18 years working with the Griquas and Basutos for the London Missionary Society.[12]

Bibliography

  • Montacute House, Somerset (1964)[13]
  • Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era (1966)[14]
  • The Victorian Country House (1971)[15]
  • Victorian Pubs (1975)[16]
  • Hardwick Hall (1976)
  • Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement, 1860–1900 (1977)[17]
  • Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (1978)[18]
  • Historic Houses of Britain (1979)[11]
  • Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum (1981), ISBN 978-0-565-00831-4[19]
  • The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (1981)[20][21][22]
  • Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House (1983)[23]
  • Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History (1985)[24][25]
  • A Country House Companion (1987) editor[26]
  • The English Town: A History of Urban Life (1990)[27]
  • Town and Country (1992)[28]
  • Windsor: The Most Romantic Castle (1993)[29]
  • Big Jim: The Life and Work of James Stirling (1998) Chatto & Windus, ISBN 978-0-7011-6247-4.
  • A Hundred Years at Waddesdon (1998), ISBN 978-0-9527809-2-2.
  • Life in the French Country House (2000)[30]
  • Rushton Triangular Lodge (2004)
  • Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540–1640 (2009), ISBN 978-0-300-09386-5.
  • Enthusiasms (2011) Frances Lincoln, ISBN 978-071123329-4
  • Friendships (2017)[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Smith, Otto Saumarez (26 August 2022). "Mark Girouard obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Mark GIROUARD – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. from the original on 7 January 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Mark Girouard (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022)". Christ Church Connections. 25 August 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  4. ^ . Society of Antiquaries. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Royal Society of Literature » Mark Girouard". rsliterature.org. from the original on 8 February 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Mark Girouard, Architectural Historian – Spitalfields Life". spitalfieldslife.com. from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Welcome | Yale University Press". Yalepress.yale.edu. 19 December 2016. from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  8. ^ National Life Stories, 'Girouard, Mark (1 of 5) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2009 21 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 10 April 2018
  9. ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  10. ^ The Independent, 8 February 1993, Marina Cantacuzino 11 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine "Does only have to mean lonely?: How does growing up without siblings affect a child? Marina Cantacuzino looks at the question from the point of view of offspring and parents"
  11. ^ a b c "Mark Girouard, author of classic works on architecture and social history including Life in the English Country House – obituary". The Telegraph. 17 August 2022.
  12. ^ Girouard, Mark (2011). Enthusiasms.
  13. ^ Girouard, Mark (1966). Montacute House: Somerset. National Trust. OCLC 1007843333.[page needed]
  14. ^ Mercer, Eric (January 1966). "Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era. By M ark G irouard". Archaeological Journal. 123 (1): 238–239. doi:10.1080/00665983.1966.11077422.
  15. ^ Adams, Phoebe-Lou (1 November 1979). "The Victorian Country House". The Atlantic.
  16. ^ Giles, Geoffrey J. (September 1986). "Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs . Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1984. Pp. 260. Text edition, $36.00. Paperback, $16.95". The Social History of Alcohol Review. 14: 37–39. doi:10.1086/SHAREVv14n1p37.
  17. ^ Stansky, Peter (Fall 1979). "SWEETNESS AND LIGHT: THE 'QUEEN ANNE' MOVEMENT, 1860-1900, by Mark Girouard (Book Review)". Victorian Studies. 23 (1): 114. ProQuest 1304751925.
  18. ^ Friedman, Alice T. (1 May 1979). "Review: Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard; Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland by Peter Thornton". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 38 (2): 198–199. doi:10.2307/989443. JSTOR 989443.
  19. ^ "Newsletter" (PDF). Society of Architectural Historians. August 1981. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  20. ^ Gilley, Sheridan (January 1983). "The return to camelot chivalry and the english gentleman". History of European Ideas. 4 (4): 479–480. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(83)90086-4.
  21. ^ Kilroy, G. J. F. (April 1982). "Review of Book: The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman". The Downside Review. 100 (339): 152–155. doi:10.1177/001258068210033907. S2CID 164904815.
  22. ^ Watson, Francis (September 1982). "The Return to Camelot. Chivalry and the English Gentleman. By Mark Girouard. 26·5 × 20 cm. Pp. 312 + 212 pls. (32 col.). New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1981. £12·50". The Antiquaries Journal. 62 (2): 445–446. doi:10.1017/S0003581500066440. S2CID 162314014.
  23. ^ MacCaffrey, Wallace T. (October 1984). "Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House. Mark Girouard". Renaissance Quarterly. 37 (3): 497–499. doi:10.2307/2860984. JSTOR 2860984. S2CID 163522197.
  24. ^ Robbins, Deborah (October 1987). ">Cities and People, A Social and Architectural History". Journal of Architectural Education. 41 (1): 57–61. doi:10.1080/10464883.1987.10758467.
  25. ^ Miller, Naomi (April 1987). "Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History . Mark Girouard". Winterthur Portfolio. 22 (1): 87–89. doi:10.1086/496313.
  26. ^ "The country house and the English novel". the Guardian. 10 June 2011.
  27. ^ Statt, Daniel (Autumn 1992). "Review". Eighteenth Century Studies. JSTOR 2739249. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  28. ^ Macaulay, James (23 November 1993). "Book Review: Town and Country: MARK GIROUARD, 1992 New Haven and London: Yale University Press 274 pp., £25 hardback ISBN 0 300 05185 9". Urban Studies. 30 (9): 1608–1609. doi:10.1080/00420989320081551. S2CID 157775002.
  29. ^ "Full text of "The Times , 1993, UK, English"".
  30. ^ Flanagan, Margaret (15 November 2000). "Life in the French Country House". Booklist. 97 (6): 607. Gale A68019005.

External links

 
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May 02, 2023
mark, girouard, october, 1931, august, 2022, british, architectural, historian, authority, country, house, elizabethan, victorian, architecture, fsaborn, 1931, october, 1931died16, august, 2022, 2022, aged, occupationarchitectural, historiannotable, workelizab. Mark Girouard FSA 7 October 1931 16 August 2022 was a British architectural historian He was an authority on the country house and Elizabethan and Victorian architecture 1 Mark GirouardFSABorn 1931 10 07 7 October 1931Died16 August 2022 2022 08 16 aged 90 OccupationArchitectural historianNotable workElizabethan Architecture Life in the English Country House The Victorian Country HouseSpouseDorothy GirouardParentsRichard Girouard father Lady Blanche Maud Beresford mother Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire Girouard s pioneering study of Robert Smythson later revised and reissued as Elizabethan Architecture established his reputation Contents 1 Life and career 2 Personal life 3 Bibliography 4 References 5 External linksLife and career EditGirouard was born on 7 October 1931 2 He was educated at Ampleforth College read Classics at Christ Church Oxford 3 and then worked for the magazine Country Life 1 from about 1958 until 1967 firstly as a writer on architecture and then from 1964 as its architectural editor citation needed He was Slade Professor of Fine Art from 1975 to 1976 and elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1987 4 Girouard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011 5 He was on the board of trustees of The Architecture Foundation from 1992 to 1999 2 and a founder and the first chairman of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust 6 1 He was the grandson of Henry Beresford 6th Marquess of Waterford through his mother Lady Blanche Girouard 1 His Life in the English Country House won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1978 7 and the WH Smith Literary Award in 1979 citation needed National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview C467 92 with Girouard in 2009 for its Architects Lives collection held by the British Library 8 Photographs by Girouard are held in the Conway Library of Art and Architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art and are currently being digitised 9 Personal life EditGirouard was married to the artist Dorothy Girouard and they lived in Notting Hill Gate London Their daughter is the writer Blanche Girouard 1 10 Girouard died on 16 August 2022 at the age of 90 11 Girouard wrote of his ancestral connection to Saul Solomon a pioneer liberal politician and businessman in Cape Colony and his wife Georgiana Solomon a social activist and suffragette Girouard was descended from Saul s brother Edward born in 1820 in Saint Helena who spent 18 years working with the Griquas and Basutos for the London Missionary Society 12 Bibliography EditMontacute House Somerset 1964 13 Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era 1966 14 The Victorian Country House 1971 15 Victorian Pubs 1975 16 Hardwick Hall 1976 Sweetness and Light The Queen Anne Movement 1860 1900 1977 17 Life in the English Country House A Social and Architectural History 1978 18 Historic Houses of Britain 1979 11 Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum 1981 ISBN 978 0 565 00831 4 19 The Return to Camelot Chivalry and the English Gentleman 1981 20 21 22 Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House 1983 23 Cities and People A Social and Architectural History 1985 24 25 A Country House Companion 1987 editor 26 The English Town A History of Urban Life 1990 27 Town and Country 1992 28 Windsor The Most Romantic Castle 1993 29 Big Jim The Life and Work of James Stirling 1998 Chatto amp Windus ISBN 978 0 7011 6247 4 A Hundred Years at Waddesdon 1998 ISBN 978 0 9527809 2 2 Life in the French Country House 2000 30 Rushton Triangular Lodge 2004 Elizabethan Architecture Its Rise and Fall 1540 1640 2009 ISBN 978 0 300 09386 5 Enthusiasms 2011 Frances Lincoln ISBN 978 071123329 4 Friendships 2017 11 References Edit a b c d e Smith Otto Saumarez 26 August 2022 Mark Girouard obituary The Guardian Retrieved 26 August 2022 a b Mark GIROUARD Personal Appointments free information from Companies House Beta companieshouse gov uk Archived from the original on 7 January 2017 Retrieved 6 January 2017 Mark Girouard 7 October 1931 16 August 2022 Christ Church Connections 25 August 2022 Retrieved 12 September 2022 List of Fellows Society of Antiquaries Archived from the original on 3 October 2010 Retrieved 11 November 2018 Royal Society of Literature Mark Girouard rsliterature org Archived from the original on 8 February 2019 Retrieved 18 August 2022 Mark Girouard Architectural Historian Spitalfields Life spitalfieldslife com Archived from the original on 18 September 2021 Retrieved 18 August 2022 Welcome Yale University Press Yalepress yale edu 19 December 2016 Archived from the original on 6 June 2011 Retrieved 6 January 2017 National Life Stories Girouard Mark 1 of 5 National Life Stories Collection Architects Lives The British Library Board 2009 Archived 21 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 10 April 2018 Who made the Conway Library Digital Media 30 June 2020 Archived from the original on 3 July 2020 Retrieved 25 September 2020 The Independent 8 February 1993 Marina Cantacuzino Archived 11 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Does only have to mean lonely How does growing up without siblings affect a child Marina Cantacuzino looks at the question from the point of view of offspring and parents a b c Mark Girouard author of classic works on architecture and social history including Life in the English Country House obituary The Telegraph 17 August 2022 Girouard Mark 2011 Enthusiasms Girouard Mark 1966 Montacute House Somerset National Trust OCLC 1007843333 page needed Mercer Eric January 1966 Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era By M ark G irouard Archaeological Journal 123 1 238 239 doi 10 1080 00665983 1966 11077422 Adams Phoebe Lou 1 November 1979 The Victorian Country House The Atlantic Giles Geoffrey J September 1986 Mark Girouard Victorian Pubs Yale University Press New Haven and London 1984 Pp 260 Text edition 36 00 Paperback 16 95 The Social History of Alcohol Review 14 37 39 doi 10 1086 SHAREVv14n1p37 Stansky Peter Fall 1979 SWEETNESS AND LIGHT THE QUEEN ANNE MOVEMENT 1860 1900 by Mark Girouard Book Review Victorian Studies 23 1 114 ProQuest 1304751925 Friedman Alice T 1 May 1979 Review Life in the English Country House A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard Seventeenth Century Interior Decoration in England France and Holland by Peter Thornton Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 38 2 198 199 doi 10 2307 989443 JSTOR 989443 Newsletter PDF Society of Architectural Historians August 1981 Retrieved 23 August 2022 Gilley Sheridan January 1983 The return to camelot chivalry and the english gentleman History of European Ideas 4 4 479 480 doi 10 1016 0191 6599 83 90086 4 Kilroy G J F April 1982 Review of Book The Return to Camelot Chivalry and the English Gentleman The Downside Review 100 339 152 155 doi 10 1177 001258068210033907 S2CID 164904815 Watson Francis September 1982 The Return to Camelot Chivalry and the English Gentleman By Mark Girouard 26 5 20 cm Pp 312 212 pls 32 col New Haven London Yale University Press 1981 12 50 The Antiquaries Journal 62 2 445 446 doi 10 1017 S0003581500066440 S2CID 162314014 MacCaffrey Wallace T October 1984 Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House Mark Girouard Renaissance Quarterly 37 3 497 499 doi 10 2307 2860984 JSTOR 2860984 S2CID 163522197 Robbins Deborah October 1987 gt Cities and People A Social and Architectural History Journal of Architectural Education 41 1 57 61 doi 10 1080 10464883 1987 10758467 Miller Naomi April 1987 Cities and People A Social and Architectural History Mark Girouard Winterthur Portfolio 22 1 87 89 doi 10 1086 496313 The country house and the English novel the Guardian 10 June 2011 Statt Daniel Autumn 1992 Review Eighteenth Century Studies JSTOR 2739249 Retrieved 23 August 2022 Macaulay James 23 November 1993 Book Review Town and Country MARK GIROUARD 1992 New Haven and London Yale University Press 274 pp 25 hardback ISBN 0 300 05185 9 Urban Studies 30 9 1608 1609 doi 10 1080 00420989320081551 S2CID 157775002 Full text of The Times 1993 UK English Flanagan Margaret 15 November 2000 Life in the French Country House Booklist 97 6 607 Gale A68019005 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Mark Girouard Mark Girouard at archINFORM list of books published Photo and Elizabethan Architecture book profile Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mark Girouard amp oldid 1136379843, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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