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George Baines (architect D
George Baines may refer to: * George Washington Baines George Washington Baines (December 29, 1809 – December 28, 1882) was an American frontier politician, editor, teacher, and Baptist preacher in Texas; he was also president and co-founder of Baylor University. Background Baines was born near ... (1809–1882), American Baptist clergyman, professor and president of Baylor University * George Baines (architect d.1934) (1851–1934), English architect * George Grenfell Baines (1908–2003), English architect and town planner See also * George Bain (other) {{hndis, Baines, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Washington Baines
George Washington Baines (December 29, 1809 – December 28, 1882) was an American frontier politician, editor, teacher, and Baptist preacher in Texas; he was also president and co-founder of Baylor University. Background Baines was born near Raleigh, North Carolina to Thomas Baines and Mary McCoy. Baines was the oldest child and was raised in Georgia and Alabama where he spent most of his childhood. Although at his early age he didn't get his formal education, due to health issue, he was forced out of school in his senior year but at his adult age 20 he educated himself then he went to the University of Alabama till in 1836 he graduated and in 1832 he had a conversion experiences in Tuscaloosa, Alabama under TJ Fisher ministry. In Salem Church there he was baptized and in 1834 he became the preacher by Baptist church of Tuscaloosa and in 1836 Grant Creeks Church ordained and later he was in Arkansas for his health treatment in 1837. He baptized more than 100 people in Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Baines (architect D
George Baines may refer to: * George Washington Baines George Washington Baines (December 29, 1809 – December 28, 1882) was an American frontier politician, editor, teacher, and Baptist preacher in Texas; he was also president and co-founder of Baylor University. Background Baines was born near ... (1809–1882), American Baptist clergyman, professor and president of Baylor University * George Baines (architect d.1934) (1851–1934), English architect * George Grenfell Baines (1908–2003), English architect and town planner See also * George Bain (other) {{hndis, Baines, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Grenfell Baines
Sir George Grenfell-Baines (born George Baines; 30 April 1908 – 9 May 2003) was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, his family's humble circumstances forced him to start work at the age of fourteen. Both George and his younger brother, Richard (Dick), were prodigiously gifted mathematicians and draughtsmen. Grenfell-Baines left a secure, but limiting, job in the Lancashire County Architect's Office to work for the prestigious private firm of Bradshaw Gass & Hope in Bolton in 1930. During the 1930s, Grenfell-Baines became aware of Modernism, particularly the work of Le Corbusier and Gropius, through the architectural press and was determined to practise it himself. He studied at Manchester University for two years from 1934. It was at this time he adopted the name George Grenfell Baines at the suggestion of fellow student Gerald Hayforthwaite. Later this was hyphenated as Grenfell-Baines: Grenfell being his mother's maiden name. He was known to frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
