Arthur John Hope, known as “AJ” (1875–1960) was an

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and president of the Manchester Society of Architects (1924). Hope was born on 2 October 1875 Atherton in the historic county of

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. He attended Wigan Grammar School and studied civil engineering at the Bolton School of Science and Art. Hope entered the office of Bradshaw & Gass as a pupil in 1892 and was made a partner ten years later creating Bradshaw, Gass & HopeR. M. McNaught, "Arthur John Hope" bituary ''RIBA Journal'', 67 (1960), p. 336. (after 1912 Bradshaw Gass & Hope). Hope was admitted to the

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as a licentiate in July 1911 after being proposed by his partner John Bradshaw Gass and Paul Ogden. Hope was respected as a building planner but was a poor draftsman and required a large number of assistants to interpret his ideas. By the 1930s, he was an intimidating figure dominating an office in which there was a strict hierarchy of professions.

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(2000), interviewed by Louise Brodie at Preston, (January 5–11) ''Architects’ Lives'', London: National Biographical Archive, C467/46/F7839 One of his interpreters was

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whose work so impressed Hope he considered making him a partner. Hope was a traditionalist, favouring a severe classical style derived from the later

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architects, with a strong dislike of

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; under his direction Bradshaw Gass & Hope continued to produce neo-Georgian designs until the 1960s.Austen Redman(2007), ''Bolton Civic Centre and the Classical Revival Style of Bradshaw Gass & Hope.'' in Clare Hartwell & Terry Wyke (editors), ''Making Manchester'', Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hope, Arthur John Architects from Lancashire British neoclassical architects 1875 births 1960 deaths People from Atherton, Greater Manchester 20th-century English architects

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