Thomas Richard Stephen Peregrine Stuart-Smith (born 14 February 1960) is an English landscape architect, garden designer and writer. He specialises in making gardens that combine naturalism and modernity.
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Early life and education
The son of Appeal Court judge Sir Murray Stuart-Smith, he was brought up in Hertfordshire on the Serge Hill estate in Bedmond. Four generations of his family have lived at Serge Hill since his grandfather bought the estate in 1927. After earning a degree in Zoology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he went on to study at Manchester University in 1982 to develop his research interests in landscape architecture and design. In 1986 Tom renovated a dilapidated barn and its surrounding fields into his new home, creating The Barn Garden at Serge Hill.
In the summer of 2013, the first Festival of Garden Literature in the UK was held at The Barn Garden.
Career
After working with Hal Moggridge and Elizabeth Banks, Stuart-Smith established his own landscape design business in 1998. Since 1984, he has designed a number of large private and public gardens in the English countryside as well as smaller inner city gardens, as well as overseas projects throughout Europe, India, the US and the Caribbean.