Architect, master builder and speculative developer. Active in London and Bedford. From British History: "... a Bedford carpenter's son who had made his name in the 1820s and '30s as a speculative builder in the South Street area of Mayfair." That page has a lot of detail about the development in Knightsbridge. Gave his address as South Street in 1837 and Putney Heath and Rutland Gate in 1853. Died Brighton.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Elger
Commemorated ati
Elger boundary
1856 Mr. Elger's freehold land extends thirteen inches eastward of this stone.
Other Subjects
William Douglas Caroe
Born near Liverpool, son of the Danish Consul. Became an architect in the Arts and Crafts style, specialising in churches. The splendid 1 Millbank was built for the Church Commissioners in 1903. Di...
John Dando Sedding
Architect. Born Eton. Specialised in churches and worked in an Arts and Crafts style of Gothic. His major work is Holy Trinity, Sloane Square but this dedicated website lists 6 other churches in ...
Samuel William Iron
Architect active in 1877. We can find no information about him, which is unusual for architects.
Michael Ventris
Architect and decipherer of Linear B script. While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...
John Meard Junior
Apprenticed to his father in August 1700 – ‘John Meard Citizen and Turner... his father and Master admitted to this Freedom’ (Freedom Admissions Register of the Turners’ Company). On his father’s ...
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