Inigo Triggs

Harry Inigo Triggs (1876-1923) was an English country house architect and designer of formal gardens, and author.

Family Life

Harry Benjamin Inigo Triggs was born in Chiswick, London, on 28 February 1876, to parents James Triggs, carpet agent, and his wife Celia Anne, née Bryant. His older brother was Arthur Bryant Triggs (1868-1936) born in Chelsea, who in 1887 emigrated to Australia, becoming a wealthy New South Wales grazier (known as The Sheep King) and collector of art, books and coins. The architect Inigo Jones was a distant relative.

In 1910 Triggs bought the property then called Fry's Farm, in Liphook, Hampshire. He re-designed the farmhouse and gardens as his home, and renamed it Little Boarhunt, based on a legend about King John hunting boar in the district. The house is now a Grade II listed building, being a representative romantic house of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

H Inigo Triggs died on 9 April 1923 in Taormina, Sicily, Italy. A memorial tablet is dedicated to him in St Mary's Church, Bramshott.

Career

Triggs designed many formal gardens and later some country houses, mostly in southern England. He specialised in historical research and in re-creating gardens of the past. His books influenced the Italian mode of the Arts and Crafts style in England. He also designed Cooper's Bridge at Bramshott and the War Memorial in Petersfield High Street in 1922.

In 1906 he was awarded the Godwin Bursary, presenting two reports: "The planning of public squares and open spaces" (76 pages), relating to the cities of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Munich, including public monuments and fountains; "Le Petit Palais, Paris" (20 pages), a detailed description of the Musée des Beaux-Arts building, Avenue Winston Churchill, designed by Charles Girault and built between 1897 and 1900.

In the 1910s Triggs was in partnership with the architect William Frederick Unsworth (1851 - 1912), and his son Gerald Unsworth (1883-1946), in Petersfield, Hampshire. W F Unsworth had previously designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1879, which was destroyed by fire in 1926 and replaced in 1932 with the present Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Houses

* [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=143114 Little Boarhunt House] and [http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,2094/Itemid,293/ gardens] , Liphook, Hampshire (1910) including a [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=143115 sunken Elizabethan garden] .
* [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=143113 The Rectory] Liphook, Hampshire (1912)
* [http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Library/files/planning/locallist/LOCAL%20LIST-%20nazeing.pdf Rookswood's Windrush Lodge] Nazeing, Essex (1913)
* [http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/Library/files/planning/locallist/LOCAL%20LIST-%20nazeing.pdf Homefield] Nazeing, Essex

Gardens

* [http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,site/id,3902/Itemid,293/ Barrow Court] , Somerset (1890)
*Saighton Grange (now [http://www.abbeygatecollege.org Abbey Gate College] ) Cheshire (1901)
*Chillington Hall, Staffordshire (1911)
* [http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol06/page309.html Ashford Chace] , near Petersfield, Hampshire, for Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1912) ( [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/955 photo of Ashford Chace] ).

Books

* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00085J6JI Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones] (1901) A series of measured drawings and other illustrations together with descriptive notes; a biographical sketch and list of his authentic works, B T Batsford publishing. With [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000YD9B44 Henry Tanner] .
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0016Q0VJW Formal Gardens in England and Scotland] (1902) [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00085HJIS Their Planning And Arrangement, Architectural And Ornamental Features] , B T Batsford publishing, 63 pages. Republished [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1851490175 1988] .
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00085C866 The Art of Garden Design in Italy] (1906) Longmans publishing, 135 pages. Republished [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0007K4ZHC 1942] and [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/076432666X 2007] .
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00085561K Town Planning, Past, Present and Possible] (1909) [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0012GC07C with 173 illustrations,] Methuen & Co, 334 pages. [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0006D95PC Second edition] (1911).
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000861OVK Garden Craft in Europe] (1913) C Scribner's Sons publishing, 332 pages. Republished [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00087F302 1933] and [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1906600058 2008] .

Sources

*RIBA Journal, 1923, volume 30, page 431 - Obituary.
*Country life, 1995, volume 189, number 43, Oct 26, pages 58-61 -"Designs for a garden - formal informality" by Diana Baskervyle-Glegg, on Triggs' Edwardian garden designs.

External Links

* [http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,person/id,1393/Itemid,293/ Parks and Gardens UK] - Harry Inigo Triggs summary record
* [http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/search/r_results.asp?Artist=Harry+Inigo+Triggs&view=2&page=1 Bridgeman Art Library] - plans and drawings by Harry Inigo Triggs