Margaret Hendry (11 May 1930 – 20 March 2001)[1] was an Australian landscape architect, one of the first women to work in this field in Australia.[2] She worked for the National Capital Development Commission in Canberra from 1963 to 1974[3] and later lectured at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra).[4]
Achievement and honours
She graduated from Burnley Horticultural College in 1948, which was very unusual for a woman at that time. She then completed a diploma in landscape design at the Kings College, Durham University in the late 1950s.[5]
From 1963 to 1974 Margaret was employed by the National Capital Development Commission to work on the landscape development of Canberra as a garden city.[6]
Margaret presented a paper at the Australian Garden Historical Society conference in the mid-1990s on the landscape development for the parliamentary area.[7]
^Hendry, Margaret (22 July 1995). "Books". The Canberra Times. Vol. 70, no. 22, 010. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 55. Retrieved 17 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Students design gardens". The Canberra Times. Vol. 60, no. 18, 568. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 3 August 1986. p. 17. Retrieved 17 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
