Alfred Edward Simpson (29 June 1868 – 9 September 1940) was an architect in

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, for 18 years that State's Architect in Chief. Alfred Edward Simpson

History

Simpson was born in

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, the only child of Edward Robert Simpson (c. 1833 – 11 July 1900) of the

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and Jane Mossman "Jeanie" Simpson née Davie (c. 1837 – 15 April 1910) who married on 28 February 1865. Jeanie married again, to William Gilbert MP on 14 April 1904. Simpson was educated at

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and the

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before being articled to D. Garlick & Son architects. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Architects and on 17 March 1890 joined the S.A. Works and Buildings Department as a draftsman, and was promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Public Buildings in November 1917 and Superintendent in 1920. Simpson was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1914. He was also a Fellow of the

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. He was awarded the Imperial Service Order in June 1936. He retired in June 1938 and died two years later.

Notable works

*Completed

Parliament House, Adelaide Parliament House, on the corner of North Terrace and King William Road in the Adelaide city centre, is the seat of the Parliament of South Australia. It was built to replace the adjacent and overcrowded Parliament House, now referred to as "O ...

, also added east wing *Two-storey extension to Magistrates' Court, Victoria Square 1921, also a three-storey extension 1933. *

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Kintore Avenue 1927 *"Melrose Wing" extension to

Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), established as the National Gallery of South Australia in 1881, is located in Adelaide. It is the most significant visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of ...

1936, also added classical facade and entrance foyer.

Family

Simpson married Frances Isabella Kell (died 7 November 1946 at vicarage, North Adelaide) on 7 September 1898. *Brian Kell Simpson (1899– ) married Elsie Gwendoline Sandford Colquhoun (1901– ) in 1927 * Dorothy Mary Kell "Mollie" Simpson (10 March 1903 – 19 May 1970), one of South Australia's first physiotherapists, married Rev., later Canon, Horace Percy Finnis (died 1960) on 6 January 1945. *Bessie Hope Kell Simpson (1905– ) married Eric Alfred Burden (1903–1944) in 1935 **John Edward Burden (b. 27 December 1935) **Robert Michael Burden (b. 25 May 1937) married (1) Margaret Anne Leahy (1937-1996) and (2) Margaret Stewart-Jones on 30 June 2000 ***Michael John Burden (

Michael Burden Michael Burden, FAHA, (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian musicologist, working in the United Kingdom. He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018. Life Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was ...

) (b. 14 March 1960) ***Alison Anne Burden (b. 4 October 1961) **Catherine Mary Burden (b. 27 May 1942) They had a home in Watson Avenue, Toorak Gardens. They were not clearly related to the South Australian family of industrialists.

References

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