Inigo Thomas (garden designer)
British artist and garden designer
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Francis Inigo Thomas (25 December 1865 – 27 March 1950) was a British artist and garden designer.[1]
Thomas was born in Warmsworth, Yorkshire, the fifth son of Rev. Charles Edward Thomas and Georgiana Mary Hely-Hutchinson, daughter of Hon. Henry Hely-Hutchinson. She was the granddaughter of Hon. Francis Hely-Hutchinson and niece of the 3rd Earl of Donoughmore. He was a cousin of civil servant Sir Inigo Thomas (1846–1929).[2][3] Thomas was the nephew of William Brodrick Thomas (1811–1898), one of the principal garden designers of the latter half of the 19th century.[1][3]
Thomas trained in the office of the architects G. F. Bodley and Thomas Garner.[1]
As well as designing numerous formal gardens, he illustrated Reginald Blomfield's book The Formal Garden in England, which was published in 1892.[4]
Works
- Rock garden for Sandringham House, Norfolk, 1870s[4]
- Gardens for Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, Somerset, 1882–1896[5]
- Formal gardens for Athelhampton Hall, Dorset, 1891 onwards[6]
- Gardens for Parnham House, near Beaminster, Dorset[4]
- Gardens for Rotherfield Hall, Rotherfield, East Sussex, 1897[7]
- Gardens for Otley Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk[8]
- Tirah Memorial, Bonn Square, Oxford, 1900[9]
- Terraced gardens for Ffynone, Pembrokeshire, 1904[10]
- Terraced garden for Chantmarle, near Frome St Quintin, Dorset, 1910[11]