Alfred Waterhouse was educated at the Quaker Grove House School in Tottenham. He began his architectural studies in 1848 under Richard Lane in Manchester. He was taught to produce architectural drawings with crisp lines and pale tints, very different from the style he would develop later. He was taught theory by copying extracts from books, including Henry William Inwood's "Of the Resources of Design in the Architecture of Greece, Egypt, and other Countries, obtained by the Studies of the Architects of those Countries from Nature" (1834) and William Chamber's "A treatise on civil architecture" (1759), he also traced the designs in Frederick Apthorp Paley's "Manual of Gothic Mouldings" (1845).
Early life and education (1830–1854)
Alfred Waterhouse
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
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who designed the ceilings of the natural history museum in london?
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Alfred Waterhouse
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what drawings do those depict?
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The central hall depicts plants considered significant to the history of the museum, o the British Empire and the smaller North Hall depicts plants growing in the British Isles.
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what special antique pieces will you find under that roof?
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are they any room sections in the museum that come that ceiling?
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are they any room sections in the museum that come under that specific ceiling?
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The Central Hall and the North Hall
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could you tell me the date of birth of that designer you had mentioned?
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19 July 1830
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where was he born?
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Stone Hill, Liverpool
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name a few educational institutions that he attended.
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His father was Alfred Waterhouse Senior (1798–1873), a cotton broker, and his mother was Mary Waterhouse, née Bevan (1805–1880), of Tottenham, both Quakers. Alfred was their first child of eight children. Waterhouse was born on 19 July 1830 when the family was living at Stone Hill, Liverpool. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Oakfield, a Tudor style villa in Aigburth, Liverpool, Lancashire. His brothers were accountant Edwin Waterhouse (1841–1917), co-founder of the "Price Waterhouse" partnership, which now forms part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and solicitor Theodore Waterhouse (1838–1891), who founded the law firm Waterhouse & Co, now part of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP in the City of London.
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Alfred Waterhouse was educated at the Quaker Grove House School in Tottenham. He began his architectural studies in 1848 under Richard Lane in Manchester. He was taught to produce architectural drawings with crisp lines and pale tints, very different from the style he would develop later. He was taught theory by copying extracts from books, including Henry William Inwood's "Of the Resources of Design in the Architecture of Greece, Egypt, and other Countries, obtained by the Studies of the Architects of those Countries from Nature" (1834) and William Chamber's "A treatise on civil architecture" (1759), he also traced the designs in Frederick Apthorp Paley's "Manual of Gothic Mouldings" (1845).
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of educational buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
The scrapbook he used survives in which he sets out Chambers and Paley's opposing views. He also is known to have read during this period John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice (1849) and Augustus Pugin's "Contrasts" (1836) and "The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture" (1841). He joined a sketching club, where he met Frederic Shields and Alfred Darbyshire. In May 1853 he set out to tour Europe with school friend Thomas Hodgkin who stated that Waterhouse ""was entirely under the influence of Ruskin, and communicated his own admiration for Gothic art and a perfect detestation of that beastly Renaissance"", the trip lasted nine months.
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Paul Waterhouse was born on 29 October 1861 in Manchester, England. He was the son and business partner of Alfred Waterhouse, an architect who designed many well-known buildings in England and had been President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Waterhouse was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining his MA in 1887.
Paul Waterhouse | Early life
With his brothers, Waterhouse was educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney (B.A. with first class honours in French, German and Italian 1900–1903; MacCallum Prize for English 1901; M.A. 1919).
Eben Gowrie Waterhouse | Early life
Schooled at Ipswich Grammar School and then the University of Sydney, Backhouse graduated in 1872 with First Class Honours in Classics and First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, followed by a Master's degree in Arts in 1875. After a brief period of teaching he passed the bar on 16 December 1876. He married on 4 February 1879, to Kate Marion.
Alfred Paxton Backhouse | Early life
Herbert Waterhouse, the fourth child of the Reverend Charles James Waterhouse, was born in London in 1864 and educated at Brighton College, East Sussex. He entered the University of Edinburgh as a medical student in 1882. In 1887 he graduated MB CM with distinction and in 1889 was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis. While in Edinburgh, he served as a resident surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and as president of the Royal Medical Society.
Herbert Furnivall Waterhouse | Early life
Many of Waterhouse's commissions for educational buildings involved multi-phase development, sometimes over several decades. This is so of both the Northern universities and Oxford and Cambridge colleges. His school buildings, smaller and usually new-built were more usually built in a single phase.
Alfred Waterhouse | Educational buildings
Sailing to Dieppe, passing through Rouen, then Paris, taking a steamer from Dijon down the Saône to Lyons, then on to Nimes, Arles and Orange. Staying the night at the Grande Chartreuse, passing into Piedmont to Susa and Turin, they walked over the Great St Bernard Pass in a snowstorm into Switzerland, in Basle Waterhouse parted company with Hodgkin and returned to Italy in the company of a Manchester acquaintance George Rooke. Waterhouses's sketchbook from the trip survives and is titled "Scraps from France, Switzerland, and Italy". Every notebook sketch is dated and labelled so his itinerary can be followed.
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Waterhouse was made an associate of the Royal Academy on 16 January 1878, of which body he became a full member on 4 June 1885. His diploma piece is an 1887 pen and ink drawing with colour washes, a perspective of the main facade of Manchester Town Hall and he was the Royal Academy's treasurer from 17 November 1897 to 5 December 1901. He was also a member of the academies of Vienna (1869), Brussels (1886), Antwerp (1887), Milan (1888) and Berlin(1889), and a corresponding member of the Institut de France (1893). In 1895 Victoria University of Manchester, made Waterhouse an LL.D.
Alfred Waterhouse | Recognition and professional life
His estate at death amounted to over £215,000 (equivalent to £ as of ).
List of educational buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Waterhouse was born the third child of seven at Chatham Kent on 22 January 1883, his father being a shipbroker. He was educated at Bancroft's School from 1894–1900 and then at the University of London. At the time of the UK 1901 national census, the family were living in East London, where Gilbert's occupation, aged 18, was given as a ship's Draughtsman. He later qualified as an architect (RIBA) and gave his profession as "architect-surveyor" when he enlisted in the army on 8 September 1914. One of his architectural projects is recorded here
Gilbert Waterhouse | Early life
Born Stone Hill, Liverpool 19 July 1830, but grew up in Aigburth, architect Alfred Waterhouse established his architectural practice first in Manchester in 1854 and from 1865 in London. He achieved national fame for a large number of mostly institutional, commercial and educational buildings throughout England, his best-known buildings being Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum, London. He also designed several structures for his home city. Including the University of Liverpool's Victoria Building, completed in (1889–92). Waterhouse's use of striking red brick and Burmantofts terracotta as building materials for its exterior and tiles inside inspired Edgar Allison Peers, a Spanish professor at Liverpool, to coin the term "Red Brick University" and to then apply it collectively to six recently founded institutions of higher education in some of the major industrial cities of England.
Architecture of Liverpool | Alfred Waterhouse
Waterhouse was the son of Edwin Waterhouse, one of the founding members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1880. Nicholas was educated at Winchester and then New College, University of Oxford.
Nicholas Waterhouse | Early life
Alfred was born on 17 June 1920 at Pampanso; a village in the Eastern Region to Hansen Dowuona-Hammond and Madam Beatrice Nettey. He had his early education at Sempe Government Junior Boys' School and Rowe Road Government Senior Boys' School (Kinbu Secondary Technical School), Accra. He had his secondary education at Mfantsipim School, the Accra Academy and O 'Reilly Educational Institute where he obtained his Cambridge School Certificate with exemption from the London Matriculation Examination in 1940.
Alfred Jonas Dowuona-Hammond | Early life and education
In 1919, while still enlisted, he accepted a tutorship in Modern history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Alfred Brotherston Emden | Early life
In addition to his design work as an architect, Waterhouse was an assessor for about 60 architectural competitions. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1878 for his design for Manchester Town Hall, and was president of that institution from 1888 to 1891. He was gained international diplomas, and in 1895 was awarded an honorary LL.D by Manchester University. Waterhouse was also a painter, exhibiting 80 watercolours at the Royal Academy. He suffered a stroke in 1901, and died in his home at Yattendon, Berkshire, in 1905. His practice was continued by his son Paul, followed by his grandson, Michael, and his great-grandson.
List of educational buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
James Waterhouse was born in London on 24 July 1842, the son of William Waterhouse, solicitor and his wife Mary. He was educated at King's College and University College schools, London, before applying for a cadetship in the Bengal Artillery of the army of the East India Company. From 1857-59 he attended the Company's military seminary at Addiscombe, near Croydon, before sailing for India, where he arrived in October 1859.
James Waterhouse | Early life
MacConkey was the youngest of six children born to West Derby minister Andrew McConkey and wife Margaret. He matriculated at Liverpool Collegiate Institution in 1880, studied Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Medicine at Guy's Hospital, completing his studies in 1889.
Alfred Theodore MacConkey | Early life and education
Waterhouse was to design three northern English universities, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool, all would be in the Gothic style. All three would form The Victoria University. What is now Manchester University began as Owens College later Victoria University of Manchester, for which the first buildings by Waterhouse were erected between 1869 and 1875. This first phase of 1869 was E-shaped in plan. Extensions followed, first the medical school (1882–83). The main facade behind which was the Council Room approached by a dramatic curved staircase, the museum lined Oxford Road, this being stone, brick with stone dressings was used for the earlier stages (1884–88), then the extensions to the engineering laboratory (1886–88).
Alfred Waterhouse | Northern universities
Elizabeth also organised between 1890 and 1914 evening craft classes in Yattendon. She also arranged amateur theatricals at home. The eldest of the five children the couple had was Paul Waterhouse (1861-1924), after being educated at Eton College and taking a degree in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford he would follow his father's profession joining the practice in 1884, his father made him a partner in 1891. Paul's son Michael Theodore Waterhouse (1888-1968) would also become an architect. In turn Michael's son David Barclay Waterhouse (1921-1998) was the fourth generation to follow the profession retiring in 1989. Alfred's and Elizabeth's other children were: Mary Monica Waterhouse (1863-1949) who married Robert Bridges in 1884; Florence Eliot Waterhouse (1866-1953); Alfred Maurine Waterhouse (1868-c.1881) and Amyas Theodore Waterhouse (1872-1956).
Alfred Waterhouse | Personal life and family
and the North of England School Furniture Co.; ironwork was by Hart Son Peard & Co. and R. Jones; the main clock was by Gillett & Bland. the clerk of works was T.M. Rickman
Alfred Waterhouse | School buildings
Anthony John Arkell was born on 29 July 1898 at Hinxhill Rectory, Hinxhill, Kent, England. He was the son of Reverend John Norris and Jessie Arkell (née Bunting). He won a scholarship to Bradfield College, where he was head boy. He next won the Jordell Scholarship in Classics to The Queen's College, Oxford.
A. J. Arkell | Early life and education
Alfred Davenport was born on 5 May 1849 in Oxford. He attended Rugby School and went up to the University of Oxford.
Alfred Davenport | Early life
Waterhouse was born in Campbell Town, Tasmania, the second son of the Wesleyan minister Jabez Bunting Waterhouse. With his father's ministry taking the family around Australia, his early education was varied. Waterhouse started school in a small country town in South Australia before attending St Peter's College, Adelaide in 1860. When the family moved to Maitland, New South Wales he attended Dr Frazer's Grammar School for a short period before being enrolled as a boarding student at Newington College in 1865. At Newington he later became a pupil-teacher, before graduating MA from the University of Sydney in 1876. In July 1880 when Newington moved from Silverwater to Stanmore Waterhouse was the one assistant master supporting President Joseph Horner Fletcher and Headmaster Joseph Coates.
John Waterhouse (headmaster) | Early life
Born in Chapelizod, County Dublin, the son of Alfred and Geraldine Harmsworth, he was educated at Stamford School in Lincolnshire, England, from 1876 and at Henley House School in Kilburn, London from 1878. A master at Henley House who was to prove important to his future was J. V. Milne, the father of A. A. Milne, who according to H. G. Wells was at school with him at the time and encouraged him to start the school magazine. In 1880 he first visited the Sylvan Debating Club, founded by his father, and of which he later served as Treasurer. Beginning as a freelance journalist, he initiated his first newspaper, "Answers" (original title: "Answers to Correspondents"), and was later assisted by his brother Harold, who was adept in business matters.
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe | Early life and success
He came to national recognition when he won a competition for the design of Manchester assize courts. His next major public commissions in Manchester were for Strangeways Gaol and Manchester Town Hall. In 1865 he opened an office in London, which was followed by his first major commission in London, the Natural History Museum. Meanwhile he was also designing country houses. Here his major work was the rebuilding of Eaton Hall in Cheshire for the 1st Duke of Westminster, which was "the most expensive country house of the [19th] century". He also designed educational buildings including schools and works for the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, and Liverpool.
List of educational buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
They are of red brick with stone dressings. He went on to design the new Hall in (1875–79), fellows' sets and a new library (1877–78), with its bold clock tower. In (1878–80) the Oxford Union commissioned an extension from Waterhouse, consisting of a new debating hall. He was commissioned by Emily Davies to design his only new college at either of the ancient universities, the Women's college Girton College, Cambridge. Gothic of red brick and terracotta. Emily writing in a letter in 1866 to her friend Anna Richardson, in which she outlined her vision for the college:
Alfred Waterhouse | Oxford and Cambridge universities
In Italy he visited Isola Bella, Certosa di Pavia, Milan, Bergamo, Monza and Venice where he remained for two weeks in August, here he sketched the Doge's Palace and St Mark's Basilica. The tour continued in Padua, Vicenza and Verona, by the end of September he arrived in Florence and stayed a week, and sketched amongst other buildings Giotto's Campanile. Moving onto Siena, Fiesole, Lucca and Pisa. Moving onto southern Italy he visited Naples and stayed around three weeks and toured surrounding towns. In November he arrived in Rome and stayed into the new year. Returning to northern Italy he revisited several cities before passing through Turin on the way to Basle and Strasbourg
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Benjamin Backhouse was born in England in 1829. He was a Bachelor of Arts and was educated as an architect.
Benjamin Backhouse | Early life
Jeudwine was born at Chicheley, Buckinghamshire on 9 June 1862. He was the son of Reverend William Jeudwine, vicar of Chicheley, Newport Pagnell. He was educated at Eton College between 1876 and 1880 before attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1880 to 1882.
Hugh Jeudwine | Early life and education
From the late 1860s, Waterhouse lived in Reading, Berkshire, and was responsible for several significant buildings there. These included, alterations to and a new stable block (1861–62) at his parents' home Whiteknights House, his own residences of Foxhill House (1867–68) both houses are now used by University of Reading. Waterhouse built a new country house for himself at Yattendon, called Yattendon Court (1877–78), demolished c.1926. Foxhill House was built with the main block containing the hall, morning room, drawing room and dining room, upstairs were five bedrooms, two dressing rooms and a night and day nursery. The servants wing projected to the east, it was hidden by a conservatory to its south.
Alfred Waterhouse | Domestic buildings
In 1854, the Waterhouses returned to England and moved to a newly built house in South Kensington, London, which was near to the newly founded Victoria and Albert Museum. Waterhouse, or 'Nino' as he was nicknamed, coming from an artistic family, was encouraged to become involved in drawing, and often sketched artworks that he found in the British Museum and the National Gallery. In 1871 he entered the Royal Academy of Art school, initially to study sculpture, before moving on to painting.
John William Waterhouse | Early life
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of domestic works by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Bill Waterhouse was educated at Greenwood Primary School and North Sydney Boys High. He completed an Arts/Law degree at Sydney University in 1948.
Bill Waterhouse | Early years and background
Herbert Stonehouse was born in West Derby, Lancashire, in 1909, to Adeline Ann and Reginald Stonehouse, a shipping clerk from Horsforth in Yorkshire.
Herbert Arthur Stonehouse | Early life
Sainsbury was born on 11 February 1856 in Heidelberg in Victoria, Australia to John Sainsbury and Lucy Hood. His brother Henry Sainsbury was a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Creswick from 1877 to 1880. After school Sainsbury worked as a junior clerk at the Oriental Bank Corporation.
Alfred Sainsbury | Early life
He was born in Cottesmore, Rutland where his father, Thomas Cattell, was the headmaster of the village school. He trained as a teacher. He was successively headmaster at schools at Woodford Bridge, Essex; Llanelli; and St Paul's Church Schools, Sheffield. When the Free Education Act (1891) was passed, he left teaching for business.
Alfred Cattell | Early life
He was particularly active in designing buildings for universities, including both Oxford and Cambridge but also what became Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds universities. He designed many country houses, the most important being Eaton Hall in Cheshire, largely demolished in 1961-63. He designed several bank buildings and offices for insurance companies, most notably the Prudential Assurance Company. Although not a major church designer he produced several notable churches and chapels. He was both a member of The Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he served a term as President, and a Royal Academician, acting as Treasurer for the Royal Academy.
Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
and the University of Sydney where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, History and Political Science in 1971, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1974. During his time at university, he resided at St John's College and later at St Andrew's College.
Charles Waterstreet | Early life and education
Helen Thomas was born 5 March 1913 in Chaldon, England. Her father was Frederick William Thomas an Oxford Professor of Sanskrit and Oriental Languages. She was initially educated at home with a tutor, but later attended Roedean School, a public boarding school for girls. After Roedean, Thomas went to Girton College, Cambridge to read classics. She graduated with a first class honours degree in classics with the additional distinction of a starred first in archaeology. She married the English art historian Ellis Waterhouse in 1949.
Helen Waterhouse | Early life and education
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of commercial buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Alfred Barton Brady was born on 1 February 1856 in Manchester, England. He was educated in private schools.
Alfred Barton Brady | Early life
He was born at Oxford on 29 June 1800, and baptised 29 July at St Michael's Church, Oxford, to Thomas Boxall (d. 1847) and his wife Diana (nee Perrett, d.1841). He had an older sister Anne (1794-1846) and a younger sister Emma (1807-1850). He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon-on-Thames (now Abingdon School), before entering the Royal Academy Schools in 1819.
William Boxall | Early life and education
Mark's School, Windsor (later Imperial Service College) until 1884, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1887.
Alfred Karney Young | Early life and family
degree by the Victoria University of Manchester (today University of Manchester) in 1919.
Caroline Rhys Davids | Early life and education
Askey was born at 29 Moses Street, Dingle, Liverpool, the eldest child and only son of Betsy (née Bowden, d. 1949), originally from Knutsford, Cheshire, and Samuel Askey (d. 1958), company secretary of Sugar Products of Liverpool. Six months after his birth the family moved to 90 Rosslyn Street, Liverpool. It was here that a sister, Irene Dorothy, was born. Askey was educated at St. Michael's Council School (1905–11) and the Liverpool Institute for Boys (1911–16).
Arthur Askey | Early life and education
Colleges at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge would commission buildings from Waterhouse, indeed from 1865 to his retirement he was almost at continual work at one or both Universities. In (1865–67) the Cambridge Union Society commissioned a new debating hall, smoking room and caretaker's house, he returned twenty years later to double the size of the building with a new wing. At Balliol College, Oxford, his first work was the new Master's Lodge facing Broad Street and the main range L-shaped with a tower above the entrance to the college with a lecture hall (1866–71), in style French thirteenth-century Gothic.
Alfred Waterhouse | Oxford and Cambridge universities
Alfred E. Stone was born on July 29, 1834, in East Machias, Maine, to Rev. Thomas Treadwell Stone and Laura Poor Stone. He attended the Washington Academy in East Machias until the family moved to Salem, Massachusetts . While attending high school in Salem, he studied drawing and surveying. He graduated from high school in 1850. In 1852 he began his architectural training in the office of Towle & Foster. A few years later he moved to the office of Shepard S. Woodcock. In 1855 he moved again, to Washburn & Brown. He left the following year and began working for Arthur Gilman.
Alfred E. Stone | Early years and family
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of ecclesiastical works by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
George was born in Somers Town to James Edward Waterhouse and Mary Newman. His father was a solicitor's clerk and an amateur entomologist. He was the brother of Frederick George Waterhouse, who also became a zoologist. George went to school at Koekelberg, near Brussels. He returned to England in 1824 and worked as an apprentice to an architect. Part of the work was in designing the garden of Charles Knight in the Vale of Health, Hampstead and the ornamentation for St. Dunstan's Church.
George Robert Waterhouse | Early life
The main building contractor was J. Parnell & Sons; heating and ventilation was by D.O. Boyd; stone carving was by Farmer & Brindley; ceramic tiles were provided by R.M. Taylor; stained galss was made by F.T. Odell; chimneypieces were made by Thomas Harrison; furniture and fittings were manufactured by H. Capel; iron work was made by R. Jones; plaster ceiling roses were by J.W. Hindshaw; the bells were cast by J. Warner & Co. St Paul's School in Hammersmith (1881–1884; demolished 1968), built for the Worshipful Company of Mercers, Gothic, in dark brick and terracotta, with slate roof. In consisted of a master's house, caretakers lodge and gazebo, surrounding walls matching school, this was Waterhouse's largest school, with 1000 pupils, the building of three floors plus dormers and basement, it had an E-plan layout.
Alfred Waterhouse | School buildings
Edward was born and raised in a large stone house called "Fairfield", whose location is now within the boundaries of Philadelphia. The of pristine and exotic gardens of the house offered a landscape that Edward was able to explore. The Copes began teaching their children to read and write at a very young age, and took Edward on trips across New England and to museums, zoos, and gardens. Cope's interest in animals became apparent at a young age, as did his natural artistic ability. Alfred intended to give his son the same education he himself had received. At age nine, Edward was sent to a day school in Philadelphia and in 1853 at the age of 12, Edward was sent to the Friends' Boarding School at Westtown, near West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Edward Drinker Cope | Early life
He was born on 8 March 1914 and educated at Ipswich School and Keble College, Oxford.
Felix Arnott | Early life and education
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of public and civic buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Alfred Darbyshire was born on 20 June 1839 in Salford, Lancashire, to William Darbyshire, the manager of a dyeworks, and his wife Mary née Bancroft. He was a nephew of George Bradshaw, the compiler of railway guides. His education began at the Quaker school in Manchester and continued from 1852 at the Quaker Ackworth School where his artistic abilities were recognised and encouraged by Henry Sparkes. He completed his education at Liudow Grove Academy, Alderley. On leaving school he was articled to PB Alley of the architects' firm of Lane and Alley in Manchester and enrolled in the Manchester School of Art.
Alfred Darbyshire | Education and career
Beamish attended Romanoff House Boys' School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, then left home at 16. In the UK 1891 Census, he appears as a 17-year-old agricultural student at the Colonial College in Hollesley, in Suffolk.
Henry Hamilton Beamish | Early life and education
Arthur Polhill-Turner was born on 7 February 1862. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Arthur T. Polhill-Turner | Early life
Walter was born on 2 September 1932. He was educated at the Accra Academy from 1947 to 1950. He proceeded to Achimota College from 1950 to 1952 for his sixth form education. He continued at the London School of Economics, a constituent college of the University of London from 1954 to 1957.
Walter Horace Kofi-Sackey | Early life and education
At Leighton Park School in Reading, Waterhouse designed new dormitories and classrooms and extended the dining room (1890–91), then (1892–95) a new sanatorium and boarding house Grove House. St Margaret's School, Bushey (1894), built to educate the orphans of Anglican clergy, included the school building, chapel and entrance lodge, built of brick, cost £34,325 (approx £4,150,000 in 2019). Another educational building by Waterhouse is his large Reading Grammar School (1868–72), that consists of a long range of buildings, consisting of the school rooms, hall, masters' houses. In style the school is Gothic, built of red brick and terracotta. It cost to build £19,709 (approx £2,100,000 in 2019).
Alfred Waterhouse | School buildings
He graduated from Bristol with first class honours in 1911.
Alfred Pippard | Early life and training
Gaselee was born at Little Yeldham, Essex, the eldest son of the Reverend John Gaselee, rector of Little Yeldham, and his wife, Sarah Anne Mant. He entered Felsted School in 1853 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1861.
Alfred Gaselee | Early life
Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. He is perhaps best known for his design for Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum in London, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the country. Besides his most famous public buildings he designed other town halls, the Manchester Assize buildings—bombed in World War II, and the adjacent Strangeways Prison. He also designed several hospitals, the most architecturally interesting being the Royal Infirmary Liverpool and University College Hospital London.
Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
He graduated from the university in 1881.
Arthur Newell Talbot | Early life and education
From 1877 to 1879 he was employed as an Assistant Master at Tonbridge School, near Sevenoaks, Kent.
Charles Thomas Whitmell | Early life and education
Norman was born in Exeter, England in 1831. His father was a landowner, surgeon and Deputy-Lieutenant of Somerset. He studied the molluscs and plants of Somerset at young age. He studied at Winchester College from 1844 to 1848. He then studied at Christ Church, Oxford and completed his B.A. in 1852. He received his M.A. from the University of Oxford in 1859.
Alfred Merle Norman | Early life
Ewart was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, second son of Edmund Brown Ewart, B.A. and his wife, Martha "née" Williams. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute and University College, Liverpool, then graduated with a Ph.D. from Leipzig University and D.Sc. from Oxford.
Alfred James Ewart | Early life and education
Ellet was born at Penn's Manor in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of six sons and the second youngest of fourteen children. In 1824, his family moved to Philadelphia where he attended the public schools. At age 16, he moved to Bunker Hill, Illinois and worked in farming. A farmer and dry goods store owner, he was a resident of Illinois when the Civil War began.
Alfred W. Ellet | Early life and education
Waterhouse became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1861, and was president from 1888 to 1891. Waterhouse's presidential address included the following: He was awarded a rappel to the grand prix for architecture at the Paris Exposition of 1867. In 1878 he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Waterhouse first exhibited one of his designs at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1857, and then from 1868 to 1901 with the exception of 1873 he exhibited mainly designs of his own buildings annually. But in later years he sometimes exhibited topographical views from both his British and European travels.
Alfred Waterhouse | Recognition and professional life
He was born on 17 April 1862, the eldest son of William Allingham, and educated at Chatham House Grammar School, Ramsgate, and University College School, London.
Herbert William Allingham | Early life
Fuller was born in Bath in 1856, and was educated at Christ's College, Finchley before graduating to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1876. While at Peterhouse, he rowed for Peterhouse Boat Club. He received his BA in 1880 and his MA in 1883.
Herbert Fuller | Early life
He went on to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1893.
Cadwallader Lincoln Washburn | Early life and education
Whitehouse was born in London in 1857 and studied civil engineering at King's College London.
George Whitehouse | Early life
Waterhouse was born to Eben Gowrie Waterhouse and Janet Frew Waterhouse in Sydney in 1916. He grew up at Eryldene in Gordon, a northern suburb of Sydney. The house is now preserved by a trust and open to the public. Douglas was introduced to entomology by his uncle Athol, who would take him on butterfly collection trips. His early schooling was at Brisbane Church of England Grammar School.
Doug Waterhouse | Early life
The former Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution and chapel (now called Newsham Park Hospital) (1870–75) (the Chapel has been demolished), built in a Gothic style with tall pavilion roofs, Built from brick with stone dressings, with slate roofs. It provided a home and school for over 300 orphans. L-shaped in plan, there is a tall tower on the south-west angle, there is also a large hall that separated the boys' and girls' wings. The builders were Haigh & Co.; structural steel work was by J. S. Bergheim; the heating and ventilation systems were by G.N. Haden and D.O. Boyd; the stone carvings were executed by Farmer & Brindley; ceramic tiling was made by W.
Alfred Waterhouse | Public buildings
Backhouse was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in England in May 1851. He was one of seventeen children to Benjamin Backhouse (1829–1904), an architect, and Elizabeth Prentice, née Fuller. His middle name, Paxton, was selected to honour the creator of The Great Exhibition's Crystal Palace – Joseph Paxton – as it was on show during the year of his birth. His parents, who were married on 20 August 1849, were forced by financial constraints to emigrate to Victoria, Australia in 1852 to make their living. The family moved back unsuccessfully to England in 1860 before then relocating first to Brisbane and then to Sydney.
Alfred Paxton Backhouse | Early life
Edments was born in London, the son of James Edments, a labourer, and his wife Ann, "née" Lyons. He had only a primary education and at an early age began to work for a firm of cork merchants.
Alfred Edments | Early life and education
Welles was born on January 20, 1830, in Waterloo, New York, the son of Gardner Welles, a Physician, and Paulina Fuller. He graduated from Hobart college in 1850. He received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from Racine College in 1874.
Edward R. Welles | Early Life and Education
Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, and was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950).
Bertram Brockhouse | Education and early life
He was born at Petersham in Sydney to solicitor Alfred Edmund Jaques and Catherine Harriett, "née" Sutton. He attended Abbey School at Beckenham in Kent before returning to Australia, first to Bowral then to Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and finally to the University of Sydney, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1904 and a Bachelor of Law in 1906.
Harold Jaques | Early life and education
In 1913–14, he spent a year at Clifton College and was a member of Polacks House; a boarding house solely for Jewish boys at Clifton.
Horace Kadoorie | Early life and education
Alfred Gilbert was born 12 August 1854 at 13 Berners Street, which was near Oxford Street in central London. He was the eldest child of Charlotte Cole and Alfred Gilbert, who were both musicians. Berners Street was at that time an area popular with artists and musicians: there were shops selling stained glass, carvings, printings and bronze artworks;Ford Madox Brown and Edward Hodges Baily had studios nearby; Leigh's Academy (run by James Mathews Leigh) was nearby, later becoming Thomas J. Heatherley School of Art. Gilbert first attended William Kemshead's Academy for a few months in 1863, which was a naval school near Portsmouth.
Alfred Gilbert | Early life
Born May 18, 1900 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Woodbridge attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1917, Amherst College, graduating in 1921, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, graduating in 1923, and the American Academy in Rome from 1923–1925. He was also the Boyer Research Fellow in Classical Archeology at the University of Michigan.
Frederick James Woodbridge | Early life and education
He was born at Rochester, March 12, 1863, the son of Alfred Richard and Mary Burroughs (Servoss) Pritchard, and always resided there. He prepared for college at Exeter, and entered the Class of '87 at Harvard, but changed to Yale, joining '87 in Sophomore year.
Albert Richard Pritchard | Early life and education
Waterhouse continued to practice in Manchester for 11 years, until moving his practice to London in 1865. At this stage of his career most of his commissions were either in the north-west or north-east of England. His earliest commissions were mainly for domestic buildings. Among Waterhouse's first commissions in 1854 were for his family, a set of stables at Sneyd Park, for his father, who had moved to Bristol and alterations to his uncle Rogers Waterhouse home at Mossley Bank in Liverpool. In executing the commission for the cemetery buildings at Warrington Road, Lower Ince (1855–56), he began his move towards designing public buildings in his developing Neo-Gothic style, building a lodge for the registrar, and two chapels, one Church of England in Gothic style, and one for Roman Catholic and Non-conformists in Norman style.
Alfred Waterhouse | Manchester practice (1854–1865)
B. J. Waterhouse, as he was commonly known, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and was the son of James Waterhouse, a grocer, and his wife Sarah, née Turner. Waterhouse reached Sydney from the Gulf of Mexico with his mother and two sisters in March 1885 and was educated in Burwood. He studied architecture at Sydney Technical College while articled to John Spencer and on 6 July 1898 married 19-year-old Lilian Woodcock (d.1955) at Christ Church St Laurence. Joining the professional relieving staff of the Department of Public Works in NSW in March 1900, he worked in the Harbours and Rivers branch and became a relieving architectural draftsman.
B. J. Waterhouse | Early life
Clayson was born in Deptford, London on 7 June 1896. In the 1910 Census of Watford, he is listed as a 14-year-old pupil at the Royal Masonic School for Boys at Bushey.
Percy Jack Clayson | Early life and education
He was allegedly born in Plymouth in 1894, although he doesn't appear in the English census of 1901.
Arnold Francis Hendy | Early life and education
In 1860, aged 16, Linley enrolled in the South Kensington School of Art but only stayed a couple of months.
Edward Linley Sambourne | Early life and education
He left in 1856 and spent periods at establishments intended to provide training to enter the law (1857) or the army (1858–59), but did not enter either profession.
William Frederick Windham | Early life and education
He was the son of George David Radford, a draper in Plymouth; the writer Ada Wallas, was his sister. Another sister, Florence Amelia, was the mother of Arthur Ewart Popham. He was educated at Amersham Hall school, near Reading, Berkshire. He matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1874, graduating LL.B. in 1878 and LL.M. in 1885. He entered the Middle Temple in 1876, and was called to the bar in 1880.
Ernest Radford | Early life
Allen was born on 9 May 1862 at 103 Camden Road Villas, Camden Town, London, the eldest child of Thomas Bull Allen, a wholesale tea dealer, and his wife Amelia Le Lacheur, daughter of William Le Lacheur. His sister Edith married another classicist John Percival Postgate, who was her tutor at Girton College, Cambridge. Details about Allen's upbringing are lacking, but he was educated at Amersham School and by private tutors before going up to University College London in 1880. In June of the next year he was elected to a classical scholarship at The Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating on 28 October 1881.
Thomas William Allen | Early life and education
Houghton was born in New York City, on April 10, 1828. He completed preparatory studies and attended Collegiate Institute in New York.
Sherman Otis Houghton | Early life and education
Crichton, one of six siblings, was born on 6 August 1910 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. He was educated at the University of Oxford.
Charles Crichton | Early life and education
Copinger was born on 14 April 1847 at Clapham, the second son of Charles Louis George Emanuel Copinger and his wife Mary, widow of George James, and daughter of Thomas Pearson of Shepperton, Surrey. Educated at the private school of John Andrews at Wellesley House, Brighton, he passed to University College, Durham, but left Durham without completing his course to enter the office of a relative who was a solicitor in London. He did not remain there long. In 1866 he was admitted a student of the Middle Temple, and after spending a short time in the chambers of T.
Walter Arthur Copinger | Early life and education
He was educated at University College School in Hampstead, London. He then attended University College London (BA, first class, 1863; MA, 1864) and then at Manchester New College (now Harris Manchester College, Oxford) (LLB first class, 1866).
Edward Henry Busk | Early life
Latham was born on 11 March 1912 in Audley, Staffordshire. He was educated at Wolstanton Grammar School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (now The Orme Academy) and Queens' College, Cambridge where he received a double First Class Honours Degree in history.
Robert Latham (editor) | Early life and education
Carnegie was born on 27 February 1859, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1878, and graduated B.A. in 1884. He then spent two years travelling round the world, yachting and shooting.
William Hartley Carnegie | Early life and education
Atwater was born near Fearrington, North Carolina in 1840. He attended common schools and the William Closs Academy.
John Wilbur Atwater | Early life and education