Dorothy Stroud

Dorothy Nancy Stroud MBE (11 January 1910 – 27 December 1997) was an English museum curator and biographer.

After Stroud died in 1997 her ashes went to Croome Park. A plaque by the statue of Capability Brown records her role in renewing interest in his life and works.

Selected publications

 * Capability Brown. Country Life, 1950. (2nd, Country Life, 1957) (3rd, Faber & Faber, London, 1975)
 * The architecture of Sir John Soane. Studio Books, 1961.
 * Humphry Repton. Country Life, 1962.
 * Henry Holland, his life and architecture. Country Life, 1966. ISBN 9781199539489
 * George Dance, architect, 1741–1825. Faber & Faber, London, 1971.