Alban Douglas Rendall Caroe

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FSA FRIBA (17 April 1904 − 11 December 1991) was a British architect.

Life

He was the son of the architect

W. D. Caröe William Douglas Caröe (1 September 1857–25 February 1938) was a British architect, particularly of churches. Early life Caröe was born on 1 September 1857 in Holmsdale, Blundellsands near Liverpool, the youngest son of the Danish Consul in ...

and brother of

Sir Olaf Caroe Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe, (15 November 1892 – 23 November 1981) was an administrator in British India, working for the Indian Civil Service and the Indian Political Service. He served as the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India ...

. He married Gwendolen Mary Bragg (1907–1982), daughter of William Henry Bragg. When she died in 1982, she was writing an informal history of the

Royal Institution The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, inc ...

, which was completed by Alban. Alban and Gwendolen's son, with whom he worked, was

Martin Caroe Martin Bragg Caroe FSA (15 November 1933 − 19 November 1999) was an English conservation architect, and partner in Caroe & Partners from 1963 until his death. Biography Caroe was born on 15 November 1933 was the son of the architect Alban ...

. Their daughter, Lucy Caroe, historical geographer, married Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian. Alban Caroe was appointed an OBE in the

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Notable work

* South extension to University of Wales Building, Cardiff (1954). His father had designed the main building (now

Cardiff University , latin_name = , image_name = Shield of the University of Cardiff.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms of Cardiff University , motto = cy, Gwirionedd, Undod a Chytgord , mottoeng = Truth, Unity and Concord , established = 1 ...

) in 1903.

Books

* * (1st edition, 1984)

References

External links

* (photographic portrait by Walter Stoneman) {{DEFAULTSORT:Caroe, Alban 1904 births 1991 deaths 20th-century English architects British people of Danish descent Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Officers of the Order of the British Empire