Todd Todd Longstaffe-Gowan read Environmental Studies at the University of Manitoba, Landscape Architecture at Harvard University and completed his PhD in Historical Geography at University College, London. He has also carried out post-doctoral research at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.’

Since entering private practice in 1990 Todd has advised on a number of public and private historic landscapes. He has developed and implemented long-term landscape management plans for Lyme Park, Cheshire; Weston Park, Staffordshire; Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire; Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire; and the Boboli Gardens in Florence.  He has similarly had extensive input in the conservation and redevelopment of a variety of historic landscapes including The Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace Gardens and The Crown Estate (Central London). In 1995 he co-ordinated the revision of The Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (in London) for English Heritage and the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust.

Todd has also been responsible for a number of new garden and landscape designs in Britain and abroad. These include: the precincts of Southwark Cathedral, London; new extensive gardens at Villa Terranova in Umbria; Stackallan House in Co. Meath, Ireland; Fustic House, St Lucy and Bauva, Cattlewash in Barbados. He has worked on the private estates at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, Port of Spain, Trinidad, Doha in Qatar, and on the Isle of Hydra, Greece. He has also prepared designs for a rooftop terrace for Selfridge’s in Oxford Street, London, and a new garden for Eastgate House (Museum) in Rochester, Kent.

He has recently designed a new garden for Marylebone School in Central London (RIBA National Award), the landscape setting for Clore Learning Centre in the Tiltyard at Hampton Court Palace, and has created and implemented a new garden in Chapel Court at Hampton Court Palace (for Historic Royal Palaces) to mark the 500th anniversary of King Henry VIII’s accession to the Throne. He is presently forming new gardens at a variety of private estates in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, and is re-presenting Kensington Palace Gardens (the eleven acre pleasure ground around the Palace) for HRP to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen in 2012.

He holds a variety of advisory roles including Gardens Adviser to Historic Royal Palaces; founder member and President of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust; and Keeper of the Gardens of Spencer House, London.

He lectures widely on landscape history both in Britain and abroad, and contributes regularly to a range of publications including Country Life, The Times, Apollo, Art Review, Garden History, The Sunday Telegraph, The Journal of Garden History, The Art Newspaper, The Burlington Magazine and World of Interiors. He is founder and editor of The London Gardener, journal of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust, and is the author of The London Town Garden 1700-1840 (Yale University Press, 2001), and The Parks and Gardens of Hampton Court Palace (Frances Lincoln in collaboration with the Historic Royal Palaces Trust, 2005). He is currently researching the history of the London Square (c.1600 to the present) which will be published in 2012 by Yale University Press (UK).