Anthony du Gard Pasley

Anthony du Gard Pasley (10 August 1929 – 2 October 2009 his grandfather William was a Dublin-born watercolourist, inventor and inheritor of the family engineering company. and served in the Royal Army Service Corps for 16 years. In 1964, he bought Romanoff Lodge in Tunbridge Wells, which he saved from demolition.

Pasley studied under Brenda Colvin, then worked for Colvin and Sylvia Crowe. He was senior associate at Sylvia Crowe and Associates from 1967 to 1972, where he worked on large landscape projects such as American air-bases, new towns, power stations and roads. and in 1983 helped her establish the English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden, He also lectured at the Regent Street Polytechnic, Chilstone Show Gardens, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells Dornden, Tunbridge Wells Hole Park, Kent St Clere Farms, Kemsing Wadhurst Park, Sussex

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