Mark Girouard: Difference between revisions

| spouse = [[Dorothy Girouard]]

| father = [[Richard Girouard]]

* ''Life in the English Country House''

[[File:Hardwick Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1315964.jpg|thumb|upright=1.45|[[Hardwick Hall]] in [[Derbyshire]] —Girouard– Girouard's pioneering study ofits architect, [[Robert Smythson]], later revised and reissued as ''Elizabethan Architecture'', established his reputation]]

'''Mark Girouard''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|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.<ref name="Grdn">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Otto Saumarez |title=Mark Girouard obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/26/mark-girouard-obituary |access-date=26 August 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=26 August 2022}}</ref>

Girouard was born on 7 October 1931.<ref name="companieshouse1">{{cite web |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/FrgHsadGe_pTDHP6LQaZz0u4Z9Q/appointments |title=Mark GIROUARD – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House) |website=Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=7 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107005922/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/FrgHsadGe_pTDHP6LQaZz0u4Z9Q/appointments |url-status=live }}</ref> He was educated at [[Ampleforth College]], read Classics at [[Christ Church, Oxford]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Mark Girouard (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022) |url=https://chchconnections.org/news/alumni/85/85-Mark-Girouard-7-October-1931-16-August- |website=Christ Church Connections |access-date=12 September 2022 |language=en |date=25 August 2022}}</ref> and then worked for the magazine ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]''<ref name="Grdn"/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sal.org.uk/history/listoffellows/?letter=G |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003032224/http://www.sal.org.uk/history/listoffellows/?letter=G |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2010 |title=List of Fellows|publisher=Society of Antiquaries|access-date=11 November 2018}}</ref> Girouard was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/mark-girouard-3/|title=Royal Society of Literature » Mark Girouard|website=rsliterature.org|access-date=18 August 2022|archive-date=8 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190208080640/https://rsliterature.org/fellow/mark-girouard-3/|url-status=live}}</ref> He was on the board of trustees of [[The Architecture Foundation]] from 1992 to 1999<ref name="companieshouse1" /> and a founder, and the first chairman, of the [[Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/18/mark-girouard-architectural-historian/|title=Mark Girouard, Architectural Historian – Spitalfields Life|website=spitalfieldslife.com|access-date=18 August 2022|archive-date=18 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918074554/https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/18/mark-girouard-architectural-historian/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Grdn"/> He was the grandson of [[Henry Beresford, 6th Marquess of Waterford]] through his mother, [[Lady Blanche Girouard]].<ref>{{cite web |titlename=Person Page |url=http:"Grdn"//www.thepeerage.com/p46073.htm#i460722 |website=www.thepeerage.com |access-date=18 August 2022 |archive-date=17 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117193659/http://thepeerage.com/p46073.htm#i460722 |url-status=live }}</ref>

His ''Life in the English Country House'' won the [[Duff Cooper Memorial Prize]] for 1978,<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://yalepresssites.yalegoogle.educom/booka/unca.asp?isbn=9780300058703 edu/britishliteraryprizes/home/duff-cooper-prize|title=WelcomeBritish &#124;Literary YaleAwards University- PressDuff |website=Yalepress.yale.eduCooper |date=2016-12-19Memorial |access-date=2017-01-06Prize 1978|archive-datepublisher=6University Juneof 2011North |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606194433/http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300058703Carolina Asheville|urlaccess-statusdate=live14 September 2023}}</ref> and the [[WH Smith Literary Award]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/a/unca.edu/britishliteraryprizes/home/w-h-smith-award|title=British Literary Awards - WH Smiths 1979|publisher=University of North Carolina Asheville|access-date=14 September 2023}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-30|title=Who made the Conway Library?|url=http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/|access-date=2020-09-25|website=Digital Media|archive-date=3 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703211341/http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Girouard was married to the artist [[Dorothy Girouard]] and they lived in [[Notting Hill Gate]], London. TheirThey daughterhad isone daughter, the writer Blanche Girouard.<ref name="Grdn"/><ref>[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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511102347/http://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 |date=11 May 2015 }} "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"</ref> 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 [[Griqua people|Griqua]]s and [[Basuto]]s for the [[London Missionary Society]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Enthusiasms|last=Girouard|first=Mark|year=2011}}</ref> Girouard died on 16 August 2022, at the age of 90.<ref name="telegraph obit">{{cite news |title=Mark Girouard, author of classic works on architecture and social history including Life in the English Country House – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/08/17/mark-girouard-author-classic-works-architecture-social-history/ |access-date=17 August 2022 |publisherwork=The Telegraph |date=17 August 2022 |archive-date=18 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818035126/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/08/17/mark-girouard-author-classic-works-architecture-social-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

*''[[Robert Smythson]] and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era'' (1966)<ref>{{Citecite journal |urllast1=https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.1966.11077422Mercer |first1=Eric |title=Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era. By MarkM ark G irouard Girouard|firstjournal=Eric|last=MercerArchaeological Journal |date=1 January 1966|journal=Archaeological Journal|volume=123 |issue=1 |pages=238–239|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/00665983.1966.11077422 }}</ref>

*''The Victorian Country House'' (1971; revised & enlarged 1979)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/11/the-victorian-country-house/666721/|title=The Victorian Country House|first=Phoebe-Lou|last=Adams|date=1 November 1979|website=The Atlantic}}</ref>

*''Victorian Pubs'' (1975)<ref>{{Citecite journal |urllast1=https://www.journalsGiles |first1=Geoffrey J.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/SHAREVv14n1p37 |title=Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs|first=Geoffrey J.|last=Giles|date=1 SeptemberYale University Press: New Haven and London, 1984. Pp. 260. Text edition, $36.00. Paperback, $16.95. 1986|journal=The Social History of Alcohol Review |date=September 1986 |volume=14 |pages=37–39|via=journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon)|doi=10.1086/SHAREVv14n1p37 }}</ref>

*''Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement, 1860–1900'' (1977)<ref>{{Citecite journal web|urlid=https://www.proquest.com/docview/{{ProQuest|1304751925}} |last1=Stansky |first1=Peter |title=SweetnessSWEETNESS andAND LightLIGHT: TheTHE "Queen'QUEEN Anne"ANNE' MOVEMENT, 1860-1900, by Mark Girouard (Book Review) Movement|publisherjournal=[[CambridgeVictorian UniversityStudies Press]]|websitevolume=www.proquest.com23 |issue=1 |access-date=21Fall August1979 |pages=114 2022}}</ref>

*''Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History'' (1978)<ref>{{Citecite journal |urllast1=https://onlineFriedman |first1=Alice T.ucpress.edu/jsah/article/38/2/198/56748/Review-Life-in-the-English-Country-House-A-Social |title=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|first=Alice T.|last=Friedman|date=1 May 1979|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |date=1 May 1979 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=198–199|via=online.ucpress.edu |doi=10.2307/989443 |jstor=989443 }}</ref>

*''The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman'' (1981)<ref>{{Citecite journal |urllast1=https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(83)90086-4Gilley |first1=Sheridan |title=The return to camelot chivalry and the english gentleman|first=Sheridan|last=Gilley|date=1 January 1983|journal=History of European Ideas |date=January 1983 |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=479–480|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1016/0191-6599(83)90086-4 }}</ref><ref> {{cite webjournal |urllast1=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001258068210033907?journalCode=tdraKilroy |firstfirst1=G. J. F.|last=Kilroy |title=Review of Book: The Return to Camelot: -Chivalry and the English Gentleman Review|publisherjournal=The Downside Review |date=1 April 1982 |access-datevolume=18100 August|issue=339 |pages=152–155 |doi=10.1177/001258068210033907 |s2cid=164904815 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Citecite journal |urllast1=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquaries-journal/article/abs/return-to-camelot-chivalry-and-the-english-gentleman-by-mark-girouard-265-20-cm-pp-312-212-pls-32-col-new-haven-london-yale-university-press-1981-1250/0BAB0CAD311D61FC013BB5055CD788E7Watson |first1=Francis |title=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.|first=Francis|last=Watson|date=18 September 1982|journal=The Antiquaries Journal |date=September 1982 |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=445–446|via=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/S0003581500066440 |s2cid=162314014 }}</ref>

*''Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House'' (1983)<ref>{{cite webjournal |urllast1=https://www.cambridgeMacCaffrey |first1=Wallace T.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/abs/mark-girouard-robert-smythson-and-the-elizabethan-country-house-new-havenlondon-yale-university-press-1983-viii-328-pp-35/7C79C3E5C56DEE23C49D39BF3D06FB88 |title=Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House. Mark Girouard |firstjournal=MarkRenaissance Quarterly |lastdate=GirouardOctober 1984 |publishervolume=[[Cambridge37 University|issue=3 Press]]|access-datepages=21497–499 August|doi=10.2307/2860984 |jstor=2860984 |s2cid=163522197 2022}}</ref>

*''Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History'' (1985)<ref>{{Citecite journal |urllast1=https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.1987.10758467Robbins |first1=Deborah |title=>Cities and People, A Social and Architectural History|first=Deborah|last=Robbins|date=1 October 1987|journal=Journal of Architectural Education |date=October 1987 |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=57–61|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/10464883.1987.10758467 }}</ref><ref>{{Citecite journal |urllast1=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/496313Miller |first1=Naomi |title=Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History . Mark Girouard |firstjournal=Naomi|last=MillerWinterthur Portfolio |date=1 April 1987|journal=Winterthur Portfolio|volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=87–89|via=journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon)|doi=10.1086/496313 }}</ref>

*''A Country House Companion'' (1987) editor<ref>{{Cite httpsweb|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/11/country-house-novels-blake-morrison|title=The country house and the English novel|date=10 June 2011|website=the Guardian}}</ref>

*''The English Town: A History of Urban Life'' (1990)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2739249|first=Daniel|last=Statt|title=Review|publisher=Eighteenth Century Studies|date=Autumn 1992|jstor=2739249 |access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref>

*''Town and Country'' (1992)<ref>{{Cite httpsjournal|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs10.1080/00420989320081551|title=Book Review: Town and Country: MARK GIROUARD, 1992 New Haven and London: Yale University Press 274 pp., £25 hardback ISBN 0 300 05185 9|first=James|last=Macaulay|date=23 November 1993|journal=Urban Studies|volume=30|issue=9|pages=1608–1609|doi=10.1080/00420989320081551|s2cid=157775002 }}</ref>

*''Big Jim: The Life and Work of [[James Stirling (architect)|James Stirling]]'' (1998) Chatto & Windus, {{ISBN|978-0-7011-6247-4}}.

*''Life in the French Country House'' (2000)<ref>{{Citecite journal |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&issn=00067385&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA68019005&sid{{Gale|A68019005}} |last1=googleScholar&linkaccessFlanagan |first1=absMargaret |title=Life in the French Country House |firstjournal=Margaret|last=FlanaganBooklist |date=15 November 2000|journal=Booklist |volume=97 |issue=6 |pages=607–607|via=go.gale.com607 }}</ref>

*''Friendships'' (2017)<ref> https://www.name="telegraph.co.uk obit"/obituaries/2022/08/17/mark> Wilmington Square Books, {{ISBN|978-girouard190852496-author-classic-works-architecture-social-history/ </ref>6}}