Architect. Born Morpeth, Northumberland. Appointed St Pancras Borough Engineer in 1893 and still in post in 1906. Lived at 23 West Hill. Father of the entomologist, Kenneth Blair. Died Middlesex. Has a page at My Blair family. The library is the only building of his that we can find.
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William Nisbet Blair
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Highgate Branch Library - inside
Borough of St Pancras - Highgate Branch Library This library was opened by Hi...
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H & H. M. Lidbetter
Architects. H. Martin Lidbetter was the son of Hubert Lidbetter (1885-1966), best known for the Euston Road Friends Meeting House (1927). Hubert designed many Quaker meeting houses. Father and son ...
1 memorial
Bridgwater Shepheard & Epstein
Architects. The history of the firm, now (2019) Shepheard Epstein Hunter, is given here. We had to check whether the Epstein in the firm, Gabriel Epstein, is related to Jacob, and it seems not.
1 memorial
Sir Arthur Mackmurdo
Architect and designer. Born Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. In 1874, he travelled to Italy with John Ruskin to study the architecture. He later opened his own architectural practice in London, and in 1...
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Beryl Brownsword
Architect and conservationist. After WW2 she worked in the architectural practice run by Richard Sheppard. She was particularly active in the Bedford Park Society where she monitored planning appli...
1 memorial
Sir Patrick Abercrombie
Pioneer of town and country planning, Leslie Patrick Abercrombie was born near Manchester. Abercrombie was an academic during most of his career, and prepared one city plan and several regional st...
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