Harry Traherne Moggridge CBE (born 1936) is a British architect and landscape architect, co-founder of Colvin & Moggridge with Brenda Colvin, and former Professor of Landscape Architecture at Sheffield University; a past president of the Landscape Institute and a commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission. [1] [2]
Moggridge was born in London and is the son of Lt-Col Harry Weston Moggridge CMG. [3]
Moggridge trained as an architect, but over time, became primarily a landscape architect. [4]
In 1965 Moggridge first met Brenda Colvin, and in 1969, she took him on as a business partner, and the practice became Colvin & Moggridge. [5]
Moggridge designed Youlbury House, built from 1969 to 1971 as a weekend home for the barrister William Goodhart (now Lord Goodhart) and his wife Celia Goodhart, who was Moggridge's sister-in-law. It has been Grade II listed since 2009. [4]
Moggridge received a CBE for services to landscape architecture. [6]
In 1962, he married Hon. Catherine Grevile Herbert (born September 1942), the younger daughter of Dennis Herbert, 2nd Baron Hemingford and the younger sister of The 3rd Baron Hemingford. They have a daughter and two sons together. [3]
John Russell Colvin was a British administrator of the East India Company, and Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces from 1853 until his death from cholera during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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