Geoffrey Charlesworth:
(September 29, 1920 – May 14, 2008).
Raised in a Yorkshire, England mining village, Geoffrey Charlesworth won a scholarship to Cambridge University from where he was recruited by Alan Turing to join the war time code breakers at Bletchley Park. There he met Norman Singer and formed partnership that lasted almost 60 years until Norman’s death in 2001. After a short time teaching in Egypt, Geoffrey immigrated to the USA where he made a 30 year career in teaching mathematics (receiving an Excellence in Teaching award in 1960) and in administration at Hofstra University. On Long Island, Geoffrey developed an interest in rock gardening that was to become a life-time love, shared with Norman. After buying a summer home in Sandisfield in 1968, they joined the Connecticut chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society (NARGS).
Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of his instruments, not the composer.
