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[[File:Hardwick Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1315964.jpg|thumb|[[Hardwick Hall]] in [[Derbyshire]] —Girouard's pioneering study of [[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 |publisher=The Guardian |date=26 August 2022}}</ref>
==Life and career==
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]] 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.{{CN|date=August 2022}} 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> He was the grandson of [[Henry Beresford, 6th Marquess of Waterford]] through his mother, [[Lady Blanche Girouard]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Person Page |url=http://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><ref name="Grdn"/>
His ''Life in the English Country House'' won the [[Duff Cooper Memorial Prize]] for 1978,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300058703 |title=Welcome | Yale University Press |website=Yalepress.yale.edu |date=2016-12-19 |access-date=2017-01-06 |archive-date=6 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606194433/http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300058703 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[WH Smith Literary Award]] in 1979.{{CN|date=August 2022}}
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==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.<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>{{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 |publisher=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>
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