Margery fish biography of georgetown

Garden writer and horticulturalist

Margery Fish (née Townshend) (5 August 1892 – 24 March 1969) was an English gardener and gardening writer, who exercised a strong influence on the informal English cottage garden style of her period.^[1] The garden she created, at East Lambrook Manor in Somerset, has Grade I listed status and remains open to the public.

Background

Margery Townshend was born on 5 August 1892 at 16 Eastbank, Stamford Hill, now part of the London Borough of Hackney, as the second of the four daughters of Ernest Townshend (died 1926), a commercial traveller in tea, and his wife Florence Harriet, née Buttfield (died 1920).^[2]

She was educated at the Friends School Saffron Walden and at a secretarial college, before spending twenty years working in Fleet Street, initially with countryside magazines and then with Associated Newspapers.

There she accompanied Lord Northcliffe on a war mission to the United States in 1916, and then