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Full Name
  
Agnes Graham

Role
  
Writer

Parents
  
William Graham

Name
  
Agnes Jekyll

Spouse
  
Herbert Jekyll (m. 1881)

Children
  
Pamela Jekyll

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Born
  
12 October 1861 (
1861-10-12
)
Scotland

Occupation
  
Artist, writer and philanthropist

Died
  
January 28, 1937, Godalming, United Kingdom

Books
  
Kitchen Essays, A Little Dinner Before the Play

People also search for
  
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Dame Agnes Jekyll DBE (nee Graham; 12 October 1861 – 28 January 1937) was a Scottish-born British artist, writer and philanthropist. The daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for Glasgow (1865–1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended King's College London.

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Family

She married Herbert Jekyll (later Sir Herbert Jekyll, KCMG), a soldier, public servant and wood-carver, and brother of the noted garden designer, writer and artist, Gertrude Jekyll. They lived at Munstead House in Surrey.

Their daughters were:

  1. Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, GBE, DStJ (1887–1973); married first, in 1911, to the Hon. Francis McLaren, M.P. (killed 1917 in the Great War); secondly, in 1922, to Colonel B. C. Freyberg, V.C., later Lord Freyberg (1889–1963), and had issue by both husbands.
  2. Pamela Margaret (1889–1943); married 1908 the Right Hon. Reginald McKenna (died 1943), and had issue.

DBE

Agnes Jekyll was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918 for her public works. Lady Jekyll first published Kitchen Essays (1922) in The Times, reprinted in 2001 by Persephone Books.

References

Agnes Jekyll Wikipedia


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