Ursula Pares

Ursula Pares

Ursula Pares (born June 30, 1907 in Liverpool , † August 1, 1986 in Barnet ), Susan Jellicoe since 1936 , was a British photographer , author and editor of a landscape design magazine. She worked with her husband, Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe .

Origin and youth

Pares was one of six children of Bernard Pares and his wife Margaret Ellis Dixon (1879–1964). She spent her childhood in Liverpool. After their parents separated in 1919, she lived with her mother and grandparents in Belsize Park (London) and attended St Paul's Girls' School from 1920 to 1925 . Pares worked as a secretary at Anglo Continental Bank before joining the office of landscape architect Geoffrey Jellicoe, whom she married in 1936.

During the Second World War she worked in the British Ministry of Information in the field of aerial photo interpretation.

Joint work with Geoffrey Jellicoe

Her good knowledge of French, German and Italian enabled Pares, now Susan Jellicoe, not only to support her versatile husband in his planning, she also developed her own planting schemes, for example for Sutton Park . Her superb black and white photographs have been featured in numerous publications with both Geoffrey Jellicoe and Marjory Allen of Hurtwood . She edited Landscape Design magazine and wrote garden articles for the Observer from 1961 to 1965 .

Her commitment to the issues of landscape architecture made her a well-known personality. In 1985 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield . She died in 1986 of complications from Parkinson's disease . Their marriage was childless.

Works

With Geoffrey Jellicoe:

• Modern private gardens (1968)
• The use of water in landscape architecture (1971)
• The landscape of man (1975)

With Marjory Allen of Hurtwood:

• The gardens of Mughal India (1972)
• Town gardens to live in (1977)

literature

• Hal Moggridge: Jellicoe . In: Oxford dictionary of national biography. From the earliest times to the year 2000. Edited by HCG Matthew and Brian Harrison. Volume 29. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2004, ISBN 0-19-861379-2 ; Pp. 921-924, therein p. 922 column 1 and p. 923 column 1.