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Edward Prentice Mawson (1885 in
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– 22 December 1954 in
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) was the eldest of the nine children of
Thomas Hayton Mawson Thomas Hayton Mawson (5 May 1861 – 14 November 1933), known as T. H. Mawson, was a British garden designer, landscape architect, and town planner. Personal life Mawson was born in Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire, and left school at age 12. ...
, and, like his father a British
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Education

He was educated at
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, the
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in London and the
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in Paris.


Career

He worked as an apprentice at a London architectural practice before joining his father as a partner in 1910. He took over the running of the firm when his father developed
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in 1923, running it almost single-handed following the emigration to New Zealand of his brother/partner John. After the end of WW2 the firm comprised Edward, his younger son Thomas and Gordon Farrow, an associate of the Institute of Landscape Artists. Notable works include The
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(with his father); the palace gardens in
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; Hazelwood Hall in Silverdale, Lancashire; Boveridge Park, near
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(1922–26), now with Grade II status as an historically important garden, on the
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; Saffron Hill Cemetery, Leicester;
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, Blackpool, (later
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, closed 2009 for housing) and well as several other parks and gardens in England, many at seaside resorts. Large-scale town planning schemes include
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's St Helier Estate (1934), and for Ulster Garden Villages Limited in Northern Ireland,
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, Abbots Cross, Fernagh, Princes Park, Kings Park, Whitehead and Muckamore Garden Villages, all in County Antrim. Due to its outstanding architecture and layout Merville Garden Village is the sole designated Conservation Area in the Newtownabbey borough. Mawson's eldest son and colleague, Thomas P. Mawson (1925-2023), unveiled a commemorative plaque there on 26 September 2009 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the estate being completed.


Personal life

In 1913 he married Hilda Bowhill (1885–1974), daughter of a successful
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boot and shoe maker. They lived at Hest Bank, north of Lancaster and had two sons, Andrew (1917–2001) and Thomas (1925-2023) and a daughter, Elizabeth (1920–2010). Edward is remembered within his immediate family as being very creative, not least as he was brought up within the Arts & Crafts era and benefited from the full education that his father lacked. He also worked extremely hard, which ultimately led to his untimely death in 1954 aged 69. Ironically he was outlived by his mother Anna (née Prentice) who died the following year.


Awards

He was awarded the
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Soane medallion in 1908. He was an honorary lecturer in landscape design at
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, a member of the Town Planning Institute, the Institute of Structural Engineers and a founder member of the Institute of Landscape Architects.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mawson, Edward Prentice 1885 births 1954 deaths British landscape architects People from Ambleside People educated at Windermere Grammar School