Keeper of the architectural flame
Oct 06, 2021
3 minutes
John Goodall
GIROUARD, you must learn to play the part!’ Such was the advice of the Editor of COUNTRY LIFE, Frank Whitaker, when he offered Mark Girouard a job at the magazine in 1958. ‘I had just finished my doctorate and had failed to get a job either at the Ministry of Works or the National Trust. I think I was simply rather scruffy,’ Dr Girouard recalls thoughtfully. ‘Then one of the architectural writers at COUNTRY LIFE, Gordon Nares, died unexpectedly and I put in for the post. I was interviewed at the
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