Mark Girouard obituary

Architectural historian who wrote extensively on stately homes and campaigned to save the Georgian houses of SpitalfieldsMark Girouard, who has died aged 90, was Britain’s most readable architectural historian, a great authority on Elizabethan and Victorian architecture whose extensive writings used the study of buildings to illuminate the social life of the past. The publication of Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History in 1978 captured the zeitgeist in a pe