Ernest George
Sir Ernest George RA (13 Jun 1839–1922) was an English architect, landscape and architectural watercolour painter, and etcher.
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[edit] Life and work
His London office was known as "The Eton of architects' offices".[1] His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens. George was the architect of the Golders Green Crematorium.
He designed houses for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington with Harold Peto in the 1870s and a number of country houses with, former pupil Alfred B. Yeates. While in partnership with Peto he designed Stoodleigh Court at Tiverton, in 1881, for Thomas Carew. In 1891, while still with Peto he designed an extension to West Dean House for William James, creating the Oak Room, now Oak Hall in West Dean College. In New Zealand, which he never visited, he designed the Theomin family house Olveston (house) in Dunedin which was built 1904-1907.[2]
He was also responsible for the current Southwark Bridge (1921), and the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in London's Postman's Park.
He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1908 to 1910.
[edit] Houses by George & Yeates
- Rousdon House (for Sir Henry Peek of Peek Freans; became Allhallows School in 1938) Rousdon, Devon (1870)
- Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset including wings, lodge and 'The Clock House' (1896)
- Cawston Manor & Water Tower Cawston, Norfolk (1897)
- Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire (1904–08)
- Olveston, (Olveston (house)).Dunedin, New Zealand for David Theomin (1903)
- Ruckley GrangeTong, Shropshire (1904)
- Bushridge Hall, Godalming, Surrey (1906)
- Crathorne Hall, North Yorkshire (1906–09)
- Putteridge Bury, Lilley, Hertfordshire (1911)
[edit] Painting
- George painted in England, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Italy.[3]
- An album with pencil-sketches of townscapes in Ostend is kept in the Kunstmuseum aan Zee in Ostend ('Oostende').
[edit] References
- ^ A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture, A Biographical Dictionary (1985), ISBN 0-7156-2141-6, p.186.
- ^ Blackman, 2007, pp.17-19.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 edition
Blackman, M. Dorothy Theomin of Olveston Dunedin, NZ: The Friends of Olveston, 2007. ISBN 978-0-473-11564-7. 3. N. Hostyn, Een album met Oostendse schetsen van Sir Ernest George. Een uitzonderlijk iconografisch document voor Oostende, [Ostend] [Kon. Oostendse Heem- en Geschiedkundige Kring De Plate], [2008].
[edit] External links
- The Lychgate, West Wickham Church (1864 watercolour)
- Ghent, Canal Scene (Etching, c. 1880)
- San Gimignano (1882 watercolour)
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