Sir Ernest George RA (1839-1922) was an English architect. Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction
His London office was known as "The Eton of architects' offices"[1] . London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. His Pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens. Sir Herbert Baker ( 9 June 1862 in Cobham Kent - 4 February 1946 in Cobham Kent was a British architect Sir Edward Guy Dawber, RA, ARA ( King's Lynn, 1861 - London, 1938 was an English Architect working in the late John Bradshaw Gass (18 June 1855 to 3 July 1939 British Architect and Artist Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA, LLD ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 George was the architect of the Golders Green Crematorium. Golders Green Crematorium and Mausoleum was the first crematorium to be opened in London, and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain.
He designed houses for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington with Harold Peto in the 1870s and a number of country houses with, former pupil Alfred Yeats. Chelsea is an area of south-west London, England, bounded to the south by the River Thames, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross. Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854 - 1933 was an English Architect and Garden designer He was the son of Samuel Morton Peto of Somerleyton Hall.
Houses by George & Yeats
- Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset including wings, lodge and 'The Clock House' (1896)
- Cawston Manor & Water Tower Cawston, Norfolk (1897)
- Eynsham Park, Oxfordshire (1900-04)
- Ruckley Grange, Tong, Shropshire (1904)
- Bushridge Hall, Godalming, Surrey (1906)
- Crathorne Hall, North Yorkshire (1906-09)
- Putteridge Bury, Lilley, Hertfordshire (1911)
Painting
George painted in England, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Italy. Bathford (pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable is a village three miles (5 km east of Bath, England. Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county Cawston is a small village located approximately 11 Miles North of Norwich, off the B1149 main road to Holt. History See also History of Oxfordshire The county of Oxfordshire was formed in the early years of the 10th century and is broadly situated in the Tong is a Village in Shropshire in England. It is near junction 3 of the M54 motorway ( A41) near Albrighton. Godalming is a town in the Waverley district of the county of Surrey, England, seven kilometres (four miles south of Guildford. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county in Hertfordshire (ˈhɑːtfədʃə(r, abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of [2]
References
- ^ A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture, A Biographical Dictionary (1985), ISBN 0 7156 2141 6, p. 186.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 edition
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