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= Maggie Keswick Jencks =

Maggie Keswick Jencks (10 October 1941- 8 July 1995 ) writer, artist, garden designer and co-founder of Maggie's Centres,

Early Life
Margaret Keswick was born at Cowhill, Dumfries 1941, the only child of Sir John Keswick and Clare Elwes.

Her father was taipan of Jardine Matheson, the influential Scottish-Chinese trading company. and the family spent time in Hong Kong and Shanghai as well as the UK. Maggie was schooled in England and read English at Lady Margaret Hal l, Oxford. After a spell in fashion she studied at the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 she published The Chinese Garden: history, art and architecture.

In 1978 Maggie married Charles Jencks, writer and landscape artist, with whom she founded the first Maggie's Centre in Edinburgh, which opened in 1996.

Maggie's Centre's
Maggie founded the first