Person    | Male  Born 3/9/1834  Died 8/5/1911

Samuel Knight

Categories: Architecture

Architect. Born Exeter. Knight was a captain in the Bloomsbury Rifles, which probably has something to do with the commission he was given to design their Drill Hall in 1882-3. Later he became an Honorary Major.

1891 - 1901 he lived at 7 Downe Terrace, Richmond Hill. Died at West Ham Union Infirmary, Leytonstone,

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Samuel Knight

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Drill Hall - foundation stone

This corner stone was laid by Lt Colonel S. Richards, commanding Bloomsbury R...

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Waring & Nicholson

Waring & Nicholson

Architects active c.1879 - 1910. Other work in London: Royal Doulton pottery (possible involvement); Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women at Waterloo Bridge; mansion block in Elliott's Ro...

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
E. Evans Cronk

E. Evans Cronk

Andrew Behan has done some research on this man with the splendid name: His full name was Edwyn Evans Cronk.  Born in 1846 in Sevenoaks, Kent, the son of Edwyn Evans Cronk and Isabella Cronk, née B...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
James Burford

James Burford

Architect. Active in 1921.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
John Romer

John Romer

Architect and structural engineer. John Henry Romer was born on 13 March 1947 in Kingston-upon-Thames the eldest of the three children of Sydney Gurney Romer (1903-2005) and Dorothy Joan Agnes Rom...

Person, Architecture, Engineering

1 memorial
Royal School of Naval Architecture

Royal School of Naval Architecture

Established in South Kensington on the site now occupied by the V&A Museum.

Group, Architecture, Education

1 memorial

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War dead, WW1
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