Background
Montague Russell Page was born in Lincolnshire, the second son of three children of Harold Ethelbert Page, a solicitor in Lincoln.
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Russell Page
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Education
He was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey (1918-1924), and afterwards studied in London at the Slade School of Fine Art in London University (1924-1926), under Professor Henry Tonks. From 1927 to 1932 he studied art in Paris, and took some small gardening jobs in France.
Career
He worked in Britain, western Europe and the United States of America. He began his professional career with projects in Rutland (1928), and chateaux in France at Melun (1930) and Boussy Saint-Antoine (1932). On his return to Britain Page was employed by the landscape architect, Richard Sudell, and he began remodelling the gardens at Longleat - work which would continue for many years.
Between 1934 and 1938 he contributed articles to the periodical, Landscape and Gardening.
Page and Jellicoe designed the landscape and building for the "Caveman Restaurant" at Cheddar Gorge on the Longleat estate in Somerset, and worked at Royal Lodge, Windsor. Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire.
Holme House, Regent"s Park, London. Broadway in the Cotswolds.
Charterhouse school. During this period Page also worked at Leeds Castle, Kent (1936 and later).
Chateau Le Vert Bois, in France (1937). Chateau de la Hulpe, Belgium (1937). Chateau de Mivoisin, France (1937 - 1950s).
During World World War II Page served in Britain"s Political Warfare Department, in France, the United States of America, Egypt and Sri Lanka.
Page went on to design gardens in Europe and the United States of America. His clients included: Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor and Duchess of Windsor, Counts Sanminiatelli San Liberato, King Léopold III of Belgium, Sir William Walton, Babe Paley and William South. Paley, Oscar de la Renta, Marcel Boussac, Olive, Lady Baillie, Pepsi Cola, Baron and Baroness Thierry Van Zuylen van Nievelt and the Frick Museum. In 1962 Page"s autobiography, The Education Of A Gardener, was published.
Page died on 4 January 1985 in London. R. Page, The Education Of A Gardener by Russell Page (1962 and reprints)
G. van Zuylen and M. Schinz, The Gardens of Russell Page (1991.
Reprinted 2008)
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United Kingdom