Arthur Richard Calvert

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Arthur Richard Calvert (1852-1 September 1922) was an architect based in Nottingham. [1]

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History

He was born in Clapham, Surrey in 1852, the son of Revd. William Bainbridge Calvert (1821-1892) and Charlotte Caparn.

He was educated at Tonbridge School and articles to M.M. Kirkland of Huddersfield. Afterwards he spent time with the Borough Surveyor of Huddersfield, and then 3 years in the practice of Evans and Jolley in Nottingham.

He set up in independent practice in Nottingham in 1879. He was later in partnership with William Warren Wright, but this came to an end in 1891. [2] By 1905 he was in partnership with William Richard Gleave.

On the 9 September 1880, he married Mary Caroline Holmes in Huddersfield. They had 5 children:

He died on 1 September 1922 at 18 Dagmar Grove, Nottingham and left an estate of £1,170 4s. 9d. (equivalent to £80,700in 2023). [3]

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References

  1. Brodie, Antonia (20 December 2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: Vol 1 (A-K). Royal Institute of British Architects. p. 323. ISBN   0826455131.
  2. "No. 26239". The London Gazette . 1 January 1892. p. 26.
  3. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Harwood, Elain (2008). Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. ISBN   9780300126662.
  5. Historic England, "Alexandra House (1254782)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 18 March 2017