Harry Gill (architect)

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Harry Gill LRIBA (25 January 1858 - 15 February 1925) was an architect based in Nottingham. [1]

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Career

Harry Gill was born in 1858, the son of William Gill (1824-1891) and Lydia Pinder (1825-1908). He married Elizabeth Pare (b. 1857) and they had a son Harry Percival Gill (b. 1887), also later an architect.

He was a pupil articled to Henry Sulley. He then commenced business on his own. He was appointed a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1912. [2] From 1901 to 1908 he took as his assistant his former pupil, Joseph Warburton.

He was president of the Nottingham and Derby Architectural Society for five years. He was also an antiquary and archaeologist, and published many articles in the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.

He also designed war memorials which can be found in All Saints' Church, Nottingham, Shire Hall, Nottingham, and Radcliffe and Southwell.

He was responsible for a good deal of ecclesiastical and domestic architecture in the Nottingham area.

He died on 15 February 1925 and left an estate valued at £13,420 17s 6d (equivalent to £814,300in 2021). [3]

Buildings

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References

  1. Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 16 February 1925
  2. Brodie, Antonia (20 December 2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: Vol 1 (A-K). Royal Institute of British Architects. p. 725. ISBN   0826455131.
  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 11 June 2022.
  4. Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 29 November 1892
  5. "1307" (1878-1937) [Building Plan Register]. District Council Records, File: DC/BS/4/2/1. Nottingham: Nottinghamshire Archives Office.
  6. Harwood, Elain (1979). Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottinghamshire. Yale University Press. p. 87. ISBN   0140710027.
  7. Star Buildings Conservation Area. Character Appraisal and Management Plan. Nottingham City Council. March 2007