Architect. Born in Greenwich. Articled to Thomas Allom. Emigrated to Sydney in 1885 on account of his wife's tuberculosis, but she was to die just 3 years later. 1921-4 he was chairman of the Federal Capital Advisory Committee and influenced the development of Canberra. Died Sydney.
Also designed the 1884 George Green School in East India Dock Road. Knighted in 1924.
The portrait is from 1931.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Sulman
Architects. Projects include the restoration of the Natural History Museum facade, Liverpool Street Station concourse and the Isokon Building.
Designer, architect, conservationist, entrepreneur and social reformer, important in the Arts and Crafts movement. Born Spring Grove, Isleworth but brought up at 46 Upper Bedford Place, in a well-o...
Architect and sculptor. Born Danzig. Arrived in England via the Kindertransport. Active in 2006. Art Forum obit. Born in what was then Danzig and is now Gdansk, Poland. Meisler was himself one of t...
Person, Architecture, Sculpture, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
Ancient city of Mesopotamia (located mainly in modern-day Iraq). It dates from circa 3,800 B.C. The site is noted for its prominent ziggurat. It started to decline from around 550 BC and was no lon...
Housing developer. Son of William Jefferies Collins. He and his brother Herbert designed the Rookfield Garden Estate - see there for more information. Local History has an 1975 interview with 'Bil...
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