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Margery Fish (née Townshend) (1892–1969) was an English gardener and , who exercised a strong influence on the informal cottage garden style.〔(ODNB entry by Catherine Horwood ) Retrieved 1 December 2012. (Pay-walled)〕 ==Background== Margery Townshend was born on 5 August 1892 in 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). 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 worked as secretary to six successive editors of the Daily Mail, the last of whom, the widower Walter Fish, she married on 2 March 1933, three years after his retirement. During and after her period with Associated Newspapers she wrote for several papers and periodicals, including ''The Field''. A visit to Germany in 1937 convinced Walter Fish that war was inevitable and they should move to the country. They eventually bought East Lambrook Manor in the Somerset parish of Kingsbury Episcopi in November that year. The house, which was designated a Grade II * listed building in 1959,〔British Listed Buildings. (Retrieved 2 November 2012. )〕 was built of Somerset hamstone in the 15th and 16th centuries and came with two acres of land.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margery Fish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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