Timothy Mowl's career has included work as a freelance architectural historian, an Inspector of Historic Buildings for English Heritage, an architectural consultant and journalist in Bath, and lecturer and writer on architecture and planning. He joined the University of Bristol after delivering the Perry Art Lectures in 1992. He is Professor of History of Architecture and Designed Landscapes, Director of the MA in Garden History and also Director of the Institute for Landscape and Garden History, a joint venture in collaboration with Hestercombe Gardens Trust. From 1992 he taught in the Department of History of Art, but in August 2005 he moved across to the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

In preparation for his MA Garden History course, Tim published Gentlemen and Players: Gardeners of the English Landscape (2000), which charts the influence of aristocrats and professionals on the creation of landscape parks and gardens. With major funding from the Leverhulme Trust, he is now researching and writing a nationwide series of the historic landscapes and gardens of England. In addition to this project he continues to write architectural biographies and his most recent, a major study of the eighteenth-century artist, architect, furniture and landscape designer, William Kent, was published in May 2006 by Jonathan Cape; it appeared in paperback in April 2007 (Pimlico).

Tim at Belcombe Court, Bradford-on-Avon: Richard Hudd (Western Daily Press).

Author photograph: Dr Clare Hickman.

Timothy Mowl can be contacted here.