Penelope Hobhouse

Penelope Hobhouse MBE (born 20 November 1929), née Chichester-Clark, is a British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter.

Born into an Anglo-Irish family in Moyola Park, Castledawson, she is the daughter of James Lenox-Conyngham Chichester-Clark and Marion Caroline Dehra Chichester (1904-1976).

"[7] She has designed gardens in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the United States.

In 1996, she designed an English cottage garden for Steve Jobs' Woodside home, a perfect fit for Tudor-style architecture.

She moved to Tintinhull and met her second husband, John Melville Malins, at a Garden History Society meeting;[10] they married in 1983, he died in 1992.