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Redfern Gallery
AR00943 · Corporate body · 1923-
Art gallery in London
AR00928 · Corporate body · 1786-2006
Most of its publishing functions were privatised in 1996 as a separate company known as The Stationery Office (TSO), but HMSO continued as a separate part of the Cabinet Office. In 2006 It's successor body, The Office of Public Sector Information, was merged with the UK National Archives
Hayward Gallery
AR00927 · Corporate body · 1968-
Art gallery
Fry, Maxwell
AR00925 · Person · 1899-1987
Architect, writer and painter.
The Standard
AR00924 · Corporate body · 1827-
Design Museum
AR00923 · Corporate body · 1989-
Jencks, Charles Alexander
AR00001 · Person · 1939-2019

Charles Jencks was born on 21 June 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland.

His parents were Gardner Jencks, a pianist and composer, and Ruth (nee DeWitt Pearl). He took at BA in English Literature at Harvard University (1961) and then a BA and MA at Harvard Graduate School of Design (1965) He received a PhD from London University in 1970 for his thesis "Modern architecture: the tradition since 1945" which led to a series of articles in Arena and to the publication Modern Movements in Architecture (1972). From 1961 to 1973 he was married to Pamela Balding and had two sons, Justin and Cosmo. He married Maggie Keswick Jencks and had two children, John and Lily. Maggie died in 1995. In 2006 he married Louisa Lane Fox . He died on 13 October 2019.