{{Short description|Scottish-born British artist, writer and philanthropist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox person |honorific_prefix = Dame |name = Agnes Jekyll |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|GCStJ}} |image = Agnes_jekyll.jpg |caption = Agnes Jekyll, date unknown |birth_name = Agnes Lowndes Graham<ref>[https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Jekyll%2C%20Agnes%20Lowndes%20%28Graham%29%20lady%2C%201861%2D Profile], onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Accessed 8 October 2022.</ref> |birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|10|12|df=yes}} |birth_place = Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland |death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|1|28|1861|10|12|df=yes}} |death_place = Godalming, Surrey, England |occupation = Artist, writer and philanthropist}}
'''Dame Agnes Lowndes Jekyll, Lady Jekyll''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|GCStJ}} ({{nee}} '''Graham'''; 12 October 1861 – 28 January 1937) was a Scottish-born British artist, writer and philanthropist. The daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for Glasgow (1865–1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended King's College London.
==Family== [[File:Francis Walter Jekyll memorial in St John the Baptist's church, Busbridge.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Francis Walter Jekyll on the Jekyll memorial at Busbridge Church]] Agnes Lowndes Graham married Herbert Jekyll (later Sir Herbert Jekyll, KCMG), a soldier, public servant and wood-carver, and brother of the noted garden designer, writer and artist, Gertrude Jekyll. They lived at Munstead House in Surrey.
Their children were: # Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, GBE, DStJ (1887–1973); married first, in 1911, to the Hon. Francis McLaren, M.P. (killed 1917 in the Great War); secondly, in 1922, to Colonel B. C. Freyberg, V.C., later Lord Freyberg (1889–1963), and had issue by both husbands. # Pamela Margaret (1889–1943); married 1908 the Right Hon. Reginald McKenna (died 1943), and had issue. # Francis Walter Jekyll (1882-1965); commemorated on the Jekyll family memorial at Busbridge Church, Surrey, England.
==Damehood== Agnes, Lady Jekyll was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918 for her public works. She first published ''Kitchen Essays'' (1922) in ''The Times'', reprinted in 2001 by Persephone Books.<ref>[http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/agnes-jekyll/ Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414220825/http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/agnes-jekyll/ |date=14 April 2016 }} at Persephone Books; accessed 28 November 2014.</ref><ref>''[http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/kitchen-essays.html Kitchen Essays]'' at Persephone Books; accessed 28 November 2014.</ref>
<gallery class="center"> File:Agnes Jekyll gravestone in St John the Baptist's church, Busbridge.jpg|Agnes Jekyll's gravestone File:Jekyll family memorial in St John the Baptist's church, Busbridge.jpg|Jekyll family memorial in Busbridge churchyard File:Herbert Jekyll gravestone in St John the Baptist's church, Busbridge.jpg|Herbert Jekyll's gravestone </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.theguardian.com/food/Story/0,2763,1548879,00.html ''The Guardian'' reference]; accessed 28 November 2014.
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