Alfred Edward Robie Farmer Cheatle (Born Dosthill, Staffordshire 15 January 1871 - 29 November 1941 Woodleigh Nursing Home, Wylde Green)[1] was an
architect[2] based in Birmingham.
Life and career
Cheatle was the son of Thomas Farmer Cheatle (1840-1918) and Mary Sarsons (b. 1838). He entered into a partnership around 1891 with
Thomas Walter Francis Newton as his partner, and until the death of Newton in 1903, they traded as Newton and Cheatle. Cheatle married Rhoda Beatrice Barker (1872-1956) on 22 May 1901 in Kingsbury, Warwickshire. They had two children, Godfrey Barker and Kathleen Thelma.
Cheatle was for many years chairman of
Tamworth Rural District Council. In later life, he lived in Chalford, Four Oaks, Birmingham. He left an
estate of £16,329 9s 10d (equivalent to £860,300 in 2021).[3]