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Richard Norman Shaw
b. Edinburgh, 1831;
d. London, 1913.
Richard Norman Shaw was one of the most prolific and inventive late Victorian famous architects, who remained both an establishment figure and a setter of stylistic trends into the Edwardian era. He was educated in Edinburgh and articled to William Burn, an Edinburgh architect who had an office in [...]

Charles Harrison Townsend
b. Birkenhead, 1851;
d. Northwood, 1928.
Charles Harrison Townsend - Highly individualistic famous architect of the English Arts & Crafts movement who transcended the movement’s largely domestic aspirations and developed a personal vocabulary more appropriate to the demands of the metropolitan environment. Townsend was articled to a Liverpool architect (1870) but moved south [...]