Munstead Wood are attributed to Cowley. Cowley had a long working relationship with Gertrude Jekyll, to whom she records her thanks in A Gardening Companion: "and lastly to her devoted friend and colleague, Mr. Herbert Cowley, editor of The Gardening Illustrated during the period of her contribution to it, for many of the photographs which materially enhance such value as this book may possess." Life during and after WW2 According to an obituary article in the Western Guardian on 9 November 1967, Cowley left journalism c. 1936 to 1940 to move to Withypool on Exmoor to run a riding school for 20 years up to the late 1950s. Cowley and his wife made a final move to the Brixham area in the early 1960s, growing camellias, nerines and alpine plants. His Kew Guild Journal 1968 obituary notes that he was survived by his wife Elsie (b. 1893? – d. 1969) and a son. Cowley's unexpected move to the West Country and retirement from journalism may be explained by the death of one of his children in September 1940 during World War II. One of his sons, RAF Sergeant Observer Robert Hurst Cowley, 580643, died aged 22 on 2 September 1940 flying with 57 Squadron on Blenheim bombers on anti-shipping patrols over the North Sea from its base in Elgin in Scotland. Robert is listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website as the "son of Herbert & Elsie Mabel Cowley of East Grinstead, Sussex". Robert Hurst Cowley has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 13 of the Runnymede Memorial to missing aircrew. Robert is also listed on the St. Thomas a Becket Church, Framfield, on the War Memorial as "of this parish". Books References External links Blog post and more of Cowley's journalism by World War Zoo gardens project blog on Herbert Cowley Article by Judith Tankard on Jekyll and Cowley Cowley's obituary and photograph, Kew Guild Journal, 1968 p. 930 1885 births 1967 deaths British horticulturists British garden writers Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew People from Newton Abbot People from Framfield British Army personnel of World War I London Regiment soldiers