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Biography
Maggie Keswick Jencks (10 October 1941 – 8 July 1995) was a writer, artist, garden designer and co-founder of Maggie's Centres.
Early life
Keswick was born at Cowhill, Dumfries in Scotland the only child of Sir John Keswick and Clare Elwes. Keswick's father was taipan of Jardine Matheson, the influential Scottish-Chinese trading company. The family spent time in Hong Kong and Shanghai as well as the UK. Keswick was schooled in England and read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. After working in fashion, she studied at the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 she published The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture.
Career
In 1978, Keswick married Charles Jencks, writer and landscape artist, with whom she founded the first Maggie's Centres in Edinburgh, which opened in 1996.