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David Stratton Davis
Davis Isaac Stratton Davis was born in 1917, the son of Major Harold Stratton Davis and his wife Amy Buckingham Webb. He trained as an architect at the Royal West of England Academy School of Architecture in Bristol and joined the family firm Stratton Davis & Yates. He was elected an Associate of the RIBA in 1940. In 1946 he won the competition to design a new council estate at The Inch The Inch is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, located to the south of Inch Park in the south of the city. It is located 2 miles (3 km) south south-east of central Edinburgh. It incorporates the Inch housing development, Inch Park and the ca ... in Edinburgh.Dictionary of Scottish Architects and Gloucestershire Echo, 2 November 1946 Apart from this he followed the firm's noted skills in ecclesiastical work. He died in 2000. References 1917 births 2000 deaths 20th-century English architects English ecclesiastical architects {{Scotland-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Stratton Davis
Harold Stratton Davis MC FSA (1885–1969) was an architect in Gloucestershire who specialised in churches, vicarages and rectories. He won the Military Cross during the First World War while serving with the Royal Engineers. Military service Stratton Davis began his military career as an enlisted soldier. He was promoted from lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, South Midland Divisional Engineers, to second lieutenant in October 1915. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1918 when he was lieutenant, acting major, for: ...conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in organising the digging of a line of posts under heavy machine-gun fire and visiting them all at great personal risk. On another occasion he displayed great determination and courage in collecting and assisting to reorganise, under artillery and machine-gun fire, the troops which had passed through the line of posts held by his company. Architecture Stratton Davis was articled to John Fletcher Trew of Gloucester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal West Of England Academy School Of Architecture
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RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971. Founded as the Institute of British Architects in London in 1834, the RIBA retains a central London headquarters at 66 Portland Place as well as a network of regional offices. Its members played a leading part in promotion of architectural education in the United Kingdom; the RIBA Library, also established in 1834, is one of the three largest architectural libraries in the world and the largest in Europe. The RIBA also played a prominent role in the development of UK architects' registration bodies. The institute administers some of the oldest architectural awards in the world, including RIBA President's Medals Students Award, the Royal Gold Medal, and the Stirling Prize. It also manages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inch, Edinburgh
The Inch is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, located to the south of Inch Park in the south of the city. It is located 2 miles (3 km) south south-east of central Edinburgh. It incorporates the Inch housing development, Inch Park and the category A listed Inch House, a former country house now used as a community centre. The associated Inch Doocot or dovecot, also a category A listed building, is situated close by, west of Gilmerton Road. Etymology The word "Inch" derives from the Scots Gaelic ''innis'' which can mean either "island" or a dry area within marshland or a river meadow. This suggests that the land on which it stands was originally dry land in the flood plain of the nearby Braid Burn. The Inch housing development The housing development is bounded by Old Dalkeith Road to the east, Liberton Road to the west, Kingston Avenue to the south and Glenallan Drive and Inch Park to the north. The housing development began in 1949. The City of Edinburgh Council had dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti- prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
