Ann MacEwen

Ann MacEwen née Radford also known as Ann Maitland (15 August 1918 – 20 August 2008) was a British architect and town planner - known for championing National Parks and resisting the car's domination of planning in the UK.

Life MacEwen was born in 1918 in Sutton, Surrey. Her parents Muriel Ann, née Lloyd and Maitland Radford were both doctors. Her father was a medical officer for St Pancras while her mother also worked in public health. Two of her grandparents were the writers Dollie Radford and Ernest Radford. She went to Howell's School in Denbigh and was brought up in the socialist mold. She joined the Architectural Association School of Architecture where she joined the student rebellion that sought to modernise the organisation. Her modernist credentials were demonstrated when she worked on the Architecture student project known as Tomorrow Town. She married John Wheeler on 21 December 1940 who had been a member of the Tomorrow Town team but who, by then, had joined the RAF. Her other contemporaries were Elizabeth Chesterton, Anthony Cox and Richard Llewellyn Davies.

MacEwen and Ann retired to Wootton Courtenay in the Exmoor National Park in 1968. She is known for her books "National Parks: Conservation or Cosmetics?" and "Greenprints for the Countryside?" which she wrote with her husband and supplied a focus for work on Britain's National Parks. Malcolm was cared for by Ann during a lengthy period of poor health during the 1990s, ending with his death in 1996. MacEwen died in a nursing home in 2008.