What was the surname of British horticulturalist and garden designer Gertrude, who died in 1932?
Gertrude Jekyll Gertrude Jekyll Gertrude Jekyll ( ; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1,000 articles for magazines such as "Country Life" and William Robinson's "The Garden". Jekyll has been described as "a premier influence in garden design" by British and American gardening enthusiasts. Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his
Gertrude Hiscox Jock Houston. She took his surname in November 1944 and confirmed the change by deed poll in May 1946. Gertrude Houston died in 1969 in Ipswich. Gertrude Hiscox Gertrude Blount Hiscox (later Houston; 23 August 1910 – 1969) was a British collaborator with Nazi Germany in World War II. In 1941, she was convicted of an offence under the Defence Regulations and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Hiscox was born in Hendon, Middlesex to James Hiscox and Ethel Blount. Hiscox was heavily involved in the inter-war politics of the British far Right. She joined the British Union of Fascists