Fanny Wilkinson - pioneer designer of London public parks, lecture by Elizabeth Crawford

Fanny Wilkinson (1855–1951) designed many London public parks and open spaces, including Myatt's Field in Camberwell and Meath Gardens in Bethnal Green She was an early student on the first landscape course in the UK, at the Crystal Palace School of Landscape Gardening. It was led by Edward Milner (who founded what became the oldest landscape architecture practice in Britain). Fanny became honorary landscape gardener to the Metropolitan Public Gardens, Boulevard and Playground Association and landscape gardener to the Kyrle Society. Wilkinson became first woman principal of Swanley Horticultural College, where two later presidents of the Landscape Institute studied (Sylvia Crowe and Brenda Colvin)
Elizabeth Crawford, who gave this lecture, also wrote a chapter on Wilkinson in Enterprising women: the Garretts and their circle (2002). It was part of the Folar Heroines in Landscape Architecture series.

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It would have been great to have had Fanny Wilkinson as a founder member of the Institute of Landscape Architects - the ILA (which became the Landscape Institute). Edward Milner founded what became the oldest landscape architecture practice in the UK (known as Milner White when it closed). Her design style looks Gardenesque.