smaller property, Harefield House at Harefield in Middlesex, which became his main residence in the final years before his death. In 1927, he became a member of the first committee of the Gardens of England and Wales Scheme, later known as the National Gardens Scheme, and the following year helped organise an international exhibition of garden design for the Royal Horticultural Society. He also continued to write, both for Country Life and the Morning Post. Death Before his death, Tipping instructed his friend and head gardener, Walter Wood, to whom he left most of his fortune, to destroy all his papers. Only a single year's diary survived. Anna Pavord, Turning leaves: The best gardening books of the year, The Independent, 3 December 2011. Accessed 24 April 2012 He died of cancer on 16 November 1933, at Harefield House, at the age of 78. Writings His books included: Grinling Gibbons and the Woodwork of his Age (1914) The Story of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (1915) English Homes: architecture from Medieval times to the early part of the nineteenth century (1920–28) English Gardens (1925) Old English Furniture (1928) Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire: A Historical & Descriptive Survey by the Late Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. and H. Avray Tipping, Curzon and H. Avray Tipping, , 1929, Jonathan Cape, London, (Finished by Henry Avray Tipping after Curzon's death) The Garden of Today'' (1933) References External links People from Versailles People from Brasted Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford British landscape and garden designers British architecture writers Country Life (magazine) people People from Monmouthshire 1855 births 1933 deaths