GILES WORSLEY 1961 - 2006

摘要

I cherish a copy of one of Giles Worsley's books, which Giles (who died last week at the tragically early age of 44) inscribed for an 'adopted Yorkshireman'. Giles was a passionate lover of his native county. His background was aristocratic, the second son of a baronet, the late Sir Marcus Worsley of Hovingham Hall, North Yorkshire - an extraordinary Georgian house designed by an ancestor and dominated by its magnificent Palladian riding school. This was a clear source of inspiration for a young man who would radically recast critical views of 17th- and 18th-century English architecture.