Mark Girouard Explained

Mark Girouard
Birth Date:1931 10, df=y
Occupation:Architectural historian
Spouse:Dorothy Girouard
Father:Richard Girouard
Mother:Lady Blanche Maud Beresford

Mark Girouard (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]

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. 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 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.[8]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/92) with Girouard in 2009 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[9]

Photographs by Girouard are held in the Conway Library of Art and Architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and are currently being digitised.[10]

Personal life

Girouard was married to the artist Dorothy Girouard and they lived in Notting Hill Gate, London. They had one daughter, the writer Blanche Girouard.[1] [11] Girouard died on 16 August 2022, at the age of 90.[12]

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 in South Africa for the London Missionary Society.[13]

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External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Smith . Otto Saumarez . Mark Girouard obituary . 26 August 2022 . The Guardian . 26 August 2022.
  2. Web site: Mark GIROUARD – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House) . Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk . 6 January 2017 . 7 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170107005922/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/FrgHsadGe_pTDHP6LQaZz0u4Z9Q/appointments . live .
  3. Web site: Mark Girouard (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022) . Christ Church Connections . 12 September 2022 . en . 25 August 2022.
  4. Web site: List of Fellows. https://web.archive.org/web/20101003032224/http://www.sal.org.uk/history/listoffellows/?letter=G . dead . 3 October 2010 . Society of Antiquaries. 11 November 2018.
  5. Web site: Royal Society of Literature » Mark Girouard. rsliterature.org. 18 August 2022. 8 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190208080640/https://rsliterature.org/fellow/mark-girouard-3/. live.
  6. Web site: Mark Girouard, Architectural Historian – Spitalfields Life. spitalfieldslife.com. 18 August 2022. 18 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210918074554/https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/18/mark-girouard-architectural-historian/. live.
  7. Web site: British Literary Awards - Duff Cooper Memorial Prize 1978. University of North Carolina Asheville. 14 September 2023.
  8. Web site: British Literary Awards - WH Smiths 1979. University of North Carolina Asheville. 14 September 2023.
  9. http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Architects-Lives/021M-C0467X0092XX-0001V0 National Life Stories, 'Girouard, Mark (1 of 5) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2009
  10. Web site: 2020-06-30. Who made the Conway Library?. 2020-09-25. Digital Media. 3 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703211341/http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/. live.
  11. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/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-1471691.html The Independent, 8 February 1993, Marina Cantacuzino
  12. News: Mark Girouard, author of classic works on architecture and social history including Life in the English Country House – obituary . The Telegraph . 17 August 2022 .
  13. Book: Girouard, Mark. Enthusiasms. 2011.
  14. Book: Girouard . Mark . Montacute House: Somerset . 1966 . National Trust . 1007843333 .
  15. Mercer . Eric . Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era. By M ark G irouard . Archaeological Journal . January 1966 . 123 . 1 . 238–239 . 10.1080/00665983.1966.11077422 .
  16. Web site: The Victorian Country House. Phoebe-Lou. Adams. 1 November 1979. The Atlantic.
  17. Giles . Geoffrey J. . 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 . September 1986 . 14 . 37–39 . 10.1086/SHAREVv14n1p37 .
  18. . Stansky . Peter . SWEETNESS AND LIGHT: THE 'QUEEN ANNE' MOVEMENT, 1860-1900, by Mark Girouard (Book Review) . Victorian Studies . 23 . 1 . Fall 1979 . 114 .
  19. Friedman . Alice T. . 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 . 1 May 1979 . 38 . 2 . 198–199 . 10.2307/989443 . 989443 .
  20. Web site: Newsletter. Society of Architectural Historians. August 1981. 23 August 2022.
  21. Gilley . Sheridan . The return to camelot chivalry and the english gentleman . History of European Ideas . January 1983 . 4 . 4 . 479–480 . 10.1016/0191-6599(83)90086-4 .
  22. Kilroy . G. J. F. . Review of Book: The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman . The Downside Review . April 1982 . 100 . 339 . 152–155 . 10.1177/001258068210033907 . 164904815 .
  23. Watson . Francis . 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 . September 1982 . 62 . 2 . 445–446 . 10.1017/S0003581500066440 . 162314014 .
  24. MacCaffrey . Wallace T. . Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House. Mark Girouard . Renaissance Quarterly . October 1984 . 37 . 3 . 497–499 . 10.2307/2860984 . 2860984 . 163522197 .
  25. Robbins . Deborah . >Cities and People, A Social and Architectural History . Journal of Architectural Education . October 1987 . 41 . 1 . 57–61 . 10.1080/10464883.1987.10758467 .
  26. Miller . Naomi . Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History . Mark Girouard . Winterthur Portfolio . April 1987 . 22 . 1 . 87–89 . 10.1086/496313 .
  27. Web site: The country house and the English novel. 10 June 2011. the Guardian.
  28. Web site: Review. Daniel. Statt. Eighteenth Century Studies. Autumn 1992. 2739249 . 23 August 2022.
  29. Book Review: Town and Country: MARK GIROUARD, 1992 New Haven and London: Yale University Press 274 pp., £25 hardback ISBN 0 300 05185 9. James. Macaulay. 23 November 1993. Urban Studies. 30. 9. 1608–1609. 10.1080/00420989320081551. 157775002 .
  30. Web site: Full text of "The Times, 1993, UK, English".
  31. . Flanagan . Margaret . Life in the French Country House . Booklist . 15 November 2000 . 97 . 6 . 607 .

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