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Roedean School by Simpson (1898)
Sir John William Simpson
KBE
FRIBA (9 August 1858 – 30 March 1933) was a British
architect and President of the
Royal Institute of British Architects from 1919 to 1921.
Background and early life
Simpson was the eldest son of the
Brighton architect
Thomas Simpson and his wife Clara Hart. He was the brother of another architect,
Gilbert Murray Simpson .
He was educated privately and articled to his father in 1875, but later attended the
Royal Academy Schools .
Career
Sir John William Simpson designed the Brighton War Memorial.
Simpson became an Associate of the
Royal Institute of British Architects in 1882. He was in partnership with M. P. Manning from 1881 to 1884 and subsequently with E. J. Milner Allen, specializing in public buildings.
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He was an active member of the
Royal Institute of British Architects , rising to be its President, and of a number of architectural associations in other countries. He also wrote books and articles on architecture.
In 1905, he was joined in his practice by the young
Maxwell Ayrton , and they entered into a partnership in 1910.
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He never married, and died at home in West Hill, Highgate, Middlesex, on 30 March 1933.
Publications
Introduction to
Sir Lawrence Weaver's Architectural Copyright (1911)
Essays and Memorials (1923)
Paris Rosemary (1927)
Some Account of the Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn (1928)
The Architecture of the Renaissance in France by W. H. Ward (second edition, ed. J. W. Simpson, 1926)
Simpson wrote many professional papers on architecture and town planning. He edited the periodical The Book of Book-Plates between 1900 and 1903.
Memberships and appointments
Honours
Major works
Big School at
Gresham's by Simpson (1903)
Wembley Stadium (with
Maxwell Ayrton )
Victoria Institute,
Worcester (1896) (collaboration)
Offices of the Crown Agents for the Colonies at 4
Millbank (1914–16)
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West Downs School ,
Winchester (1897–98)
Roedean School (1898–99, 1906, 1908, 1911)
New school buildings at
Gresham's School (completed 1903)
Restoration of the Old Hall of
Lincoln's Inn , London
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (with E.J. Milner Allen)
New buildings for
Lancing College
New buildings for
Haileybury College (now called Haileybury and Imperial Service College)
Queen Victoria memorial at
Bradford
Royal Sussex Regiment memorial at
Regency Square, Brighton
Onslow Ford memorial in
St John's Wood
Cartwright Memorial Hall at
Bradford
Brighton War Memorial ,
Old Steine ,
Brighton
Palace of Industry, Palace of Engineering and
Stadium at
British Empire Exhibition ,
Wembley , 1924 (with
Maxwell Ayrton )
Grafton Street Hospital,
Liverpool (collaboration)
National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, London (collaboration)
Glasgow Art Galleries for the Corporation of Glasgow (collaboration)
References
Simpson, Sir John William (1858–1933), architect by W. G. Allen and John Elliott in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
Sir John William Simpson by R. Unwinetal, RIBA Journal, volume 40 (1932–33), pages 514–15 and 517
The Builder , volume 144 (1933), pages 568-573 and 614
Obituary,
The Times , 1 April 1933
John William Simpson's entry at www.scottisharchitects.org.uk
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