Editing Gertrude Jekyll (section)

== Early life ==
Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, [[Mayfair]], London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, [[Esquire]], an officer in the [[Grenadier Guards]], and his wife Julia, ''née'' [[Hamersley family|Hammersley]]. In 1848 her family left London and moved to [[Bramley, Surrey|Bramley House]] in [[Surrey]].<ref name=Times_obit>{{cite newspaper The Times |title= Miss Gertrude Jekyll |date= 10 December 1932 |issue= 46313 |page= 12 }}</ref> She never married and had no children.

Her younger brother, [[Walter Jekyll]] (an Anglican priest; sometime [[Canon (priest)|Minor Canon]] of [[Worcester Cathedral]] and [[St Paul's Pro-Cathedral|Chaplain of Malta]]), was a friend of [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], who borrowed the family name for his 1886 novella ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sinclair |first1=Jill |title=Queen of the mixed border |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jun/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview7 |work=The Guardian |date=16 June 2006 }}</ref>