Alban Douglas Rendall Caroe OBE FSA

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(17 April 1904 − 11 December 1991) was a British

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Life

He was the son of the architect W. D. Caröe 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 Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquelyThis is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nobel ...

. When she died in 1982, she was writing an informal history of the

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, which was completed by Alban. Alban and Gwendolen's son, with whom he worked, was Martin Caroe. Their daughter, Lucy Caroe, historical geographer, married

Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (16 October 1927 – 4 April 1995) was a UK, British peer and physiologist. Personal life Richard Hume Adrian was born in Cambridge in 1927, as the only son of Edgar Adrian, 1 ...

. 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

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) in 1903.

Books

* * (1st edition, 1984)

References

External links

* (photographic portrait by

Walter Stoneman Walter Ernest Stoneman (6 April 1876 – 14 May 1958) was an English portrait photographer who took many photographs for the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London. Career as a photographer Stoneman was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 6 ...

) {{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