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Giles Worsley
Giles Arthington Worsley FSA (22 March 1961 – 17 January 2006) was an English architectural historian, author, editor, journalist and critic, specialising in British country houses.
Worsley was born on 22 March 1961 in North Yorkshire, the second of three sons of Sir Marcus Worsley, 5th Baronet and his wife the Hon Bridget Assheton (1926–2004), a daughter of Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe. His family moved into Hovingham Hall when he was aged 12, after his father inherited the baronetcy and estate, which in 2006 was 3,000 acres. He was a nephew of Katharine, Duchess of Kent.
Worsley was educated at Eton, studied Modern History at New College, Oxford (MA) including architectural history from Howard Colvin, and then in 1983 studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art (PhD, 1989) with his thesis on The Design and Development of the Stable and Riding House in Great Britain from the Thirteenth Century to 1914, which was later reworked into his 2004 book The British Stable.
Worsley joined Country Life weekly magazine in 1985 as an architectural writer, working for Clive Aslet and Marcus Binney, becoming architectural editor in 1989. In 1994 he left Country Life to take over from Dan Cruickshank as editor of the recently created Perspectives on Architecture monthly magazine, funded by Prince Charles through his Institute of Architecture. In March 1998 Perspectives on Architecture ceased publication after 33 issues (its February/March issue being the last) and he became the architecture correspondent of The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London, which he continued until his death in 2006. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 1999. He became a senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in 2002, which he also continued until his death in 2006.
In 1988 he won the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Essay Medal. In 1995 his book Classical Architecture in Britain: the Heroic Age won the Yorkshire Post Best Art Book Award.
Honorary Positions held:
Worsley married Joanna Beaufort Pitman (born 1963, daughter of Peter Pitman), a writer and The Times journalist, a great-granddaughter of George Lawson Johnston, 1st Baron Luke, by her grandmother the Hon Margaret Beaufort Lawson Johnston who married Sir Isaac James Pitman, at St George's, Hanover Square, London on 21 September 1996. One of the page boys attending the bride was Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, grandson of the Duke of Kent.
They had three daughters:
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Giles Worsley
Giles Arthington Worsley FSA (22 March 1961 – 17 January 2006) was an English architectural historian, author, editor, journalist and critic, specialising in British country houses.
Worsley was born on 22 March 1961 in North Yorkshire, the second of three sons of Sir Marcus Worsley, 5th Baronet and his wife the Hon Bridget Assheton (1926–2004), a daughter of Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe. His family moved into Hovingham Hall when he was aged 12, after his father inherited the baronetcy and estate, which in 2006 was 3,000 acres. He was a nephew of Katharine, Duchess of Kent.
Worsley was educated at Eton, studied Modern History at New College, Oxford (MA) including architectural history from Howard Colvin, and then in 1983 studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art (PhD, 1989) with his thesis on The Design and Development of the Stable and Riding House in Great Britain from the Thirteenth Century to 1914, which was later reworked into his 2004 book The British Stable.
Worsley joined Country Life weekly magazine in 1985 as an architectural writer, working for Clive Aslet and Marcus Binney, becoming architectural editor in 1989. In 1994 he left Country Life to take over from Dan Cruickshank as editor of the recently created Perspectives on Architecture monthly magazine, funded by Prince Charles through his Institute of Architecture. In March 1998 Perspectives on Architecture ceased publication after 33 issues (its February/March issue being the last) and he became the architecture correspondent of The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London, which he continued until his death in 2006. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 1999. He became a senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in 2002, which he also continued until his death in 2006.
In 1988 he won the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Essay Medal. In 1995 his book Classical Architecture in Britain: the Heroic Age won the Yorkshire Post Best Art Book Award.
Honorary Positions held:
Worsley married Joanna Beaufort Pitman (born 1963, daughter of Peter Pitman), a writer and The Times journalist, a great-granddaughter of George Lawson Johnston, 1st Baron Luke, by her grandmother the Hon Margaret Beaufort Lawson Johnston who married Sir Isaac James Pitman, at St George's, Hanover Square, London on 21 September 1996. One of the page boys attending the bride was Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, grandson of the Duke of Kent.
They had three daughters: