Garden designer
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Mairi Sawyer
Submitted by Alison McCall on 19 September 2017 - 4:36pm
Revised: 19 September 2017 - 4:49pm — Alison McCall
Dates:
1 March 1879 - 23 July 1953.
Mairi was the daughter of Osgood Mackenzie, who had bought the Inverewe Estate and established a garden there.
She married Robert Hanbury in 1907. On her father's death in 1922 she continued with his work. Her first husband died in 1933, and in 1935 Mairi married Ronald Sawyer. Inverewe House had been burnt in 1914, and Mairi and Ronald rebuilt it.
Ronald Sawyer died in 1945. In 1952 Mairi gave Inverewe Garden and an endowment for its future upkeep to the National Trust for Scotland.
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