Person    | Male  Born 13/6/1839  Died 8/12/1922

Sir Ernest George

Categories: Architecture

Architect. Born 9 Portland Place, now Bartholomew Street, SE1. His partnership with Harold Peto was extremely successful. They designed many of the houses in Harrington and Collingham Gardens including 39 Harrington Gardens for W. S. Gilbert. Other London work: The Royal Exchange Buildings on Cornhill, Royal Academy of Music in Marylebone Road, Southwark Bridge. Died at home, 71 Palace Court, Bayswater.

2023: Spitalfields Life has a whole post about George's London etchings. 

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Sir Ernest George

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Sir Ernest George - SE1

Sir Ernest George (1839 - 1922), architect, lived here. Southwark Council 

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Sir Ernest George - SW1

Built by Sir Ernest George, Royal Academician, President Royal Institute of B...

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Henry Lofts

Henry Lofts erected this fountain without naming anyone he wished to commemor...

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PP - 3A - Griffin

Thomas Griffin, fitters labourer, April 12, 1899, in a boiler explosion at a ...

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Southwark Bridge opened

{Beneath the 'bridge mark' of the Bridge House Estates and above the City of ...

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Adams, Holden and Pearson

Adams, Holden and Pearson

Architectural partnership. 1899 Charles Holden joined H. Percy Adams' practice and became a partner in 1907. In 1913 Lionel Pearson became a partner. Their designs include 55 Broadway, the headquar...

Group, Architecture

5 memorials
G. Topham Forrest

G. Topham Forrest

Architect active in 1937. We have found his name associated with the design / laying out of: the Becontree estate in 1920 and the Downham Estate in Lewisham in 1923. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, h...

Person, Architecture, Scotland

1 memorial
Arnold Dunbar Smith

Arnold Dunbar Smith

Architect.  Born Islington.   From University of Texas: "Smith and Brewer formed a partnership in 1895 in London. Both men were members of the Art Workers Guild (Brewer elected in 1901 and Smith ...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Robert Cantwell

Robert Cantwell

Laid out the Norland Estate and designed the Royal Crescent there.  Died at home in Wimpole Street.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Samuel William Iron

Samuel William Iron

Architect active in 1877. We can find no information about him, which is unusual for architects.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial