JENCKS, Charles Alexander (1939-2019)

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From the Daily Telegraph 16 October 2019 - JENCKS Charles Alexander, born in Baltimore USA 1939, died at home in London, October 13th, aged 80. Much loved husband, father, step-father and grandfather. Cremation Private. No flowers.There will be a celebration of his life in 2020.

He m (2) 1978 Maggie (1941-1995) dau of Sir John Henry KESWICK KCMG (1906-1982) and (Celia) Clare Mary Alice (1905-1998) dau of Gervase Henry ELWES (1866-1921) (sometime head of the LG family of that name of Roxby) and Lady Winefride Mary Elizabeth FEILDING (c1869-1959) dau of 8th Earl of DENBIGH.  He m (3) 2006 (as her 2nd husband, her 1st husband being Robin James LANE FOX) Louisa Caroline Mary (b 1949) dau of Major Charles FARRELL MC (c1919-2015) and (as her 2nd husband) Lady Katharine Mary Veronica PAGET (1922-2017) dau of 6th Marquess of ANGLESEY.  There are plenty of other noble descents as well for both wives.  He had issue by his 1st m (to Pamela Balding) Cosmo and Justin and by 2nd m John Keswick b 1978 and Lily Clare b 1980

Obituary in Daily Telegraph 17 October 2019 - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/10/15/charles-jencks-architecture-writer-landscape-designer-inspired/

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Charles Jencks, the architectural historian and critic who has died aged 80, defined Post-Modernism in architecture and promoted it in its early years before turning his back on the movement and condemning it for selling out to commercialism; in his later years he became better known as the co-creator, with his second wife Maggie Keswick, of one of the most extraordinary gardens in Britain – and, after her death, as the founder of a new concept in cancer care.

Charles Alexander Jencks was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 21 1939 and educated at Harvard, obtaining his undergraduate degree in English Literature and his master’s degree in Architecture, in 1965. He came to London University on a Fulbright scholarship the same year, taking a doctorate in Architectural History in 1970.

In 1968 he had joined the Architectural Association, where he became a lecturer in Architecture. It was here that he met his future wife, Maggie Keswick, who was studying at the Association. They would marry in 1978.

With his wife Maggie he transformed a Victorian London terraced house into a temple of Post-Modernism and redesigned all the Keswick family gardens. An exhibition of Jencks’s work was held in the Redfern Gallery in 1995.

Charles Jencks married, first, Pamela Balding in 1960; that marriage was dissolved in 1973. He married, secondly, in 1978, Maggie Keswick, who died in 1995. He married thirdly, in 2006, Louisa Lane Fox, who survives him along with two sons of his first marriage and a daughter and son of his second.

Charles Jencks, born June 21 1939, died October 13 2019