Harold Chalton Bradshaw CBE M.Arch FRIBA (15 February 1893 – 15 October 1943)
[, 23 October 2007, accessed 28 December 2007] was a
Liverpool
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-born architect, recipient of the first Rome scholarship in Architecture (1913) & first Secretary of The Royal Fine Art Commission.
His design work included the
British School at Rome
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History
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's Common Room (1924, as projected by
Edwin Lutyens
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)
[British School at Rome early history](_blank)
, accessed 28 December 2007 and several
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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First World War cemeteries and memorials, including the
Cambrai Memorial
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Fou ...
in France
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accessed 28 December 2007 and the
Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing
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and its
surrounding cemetery.
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accessed 28 December 2007 He also designed the Guards' Division Memorial in
St. James's Park
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in London.
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accessed 28 December 2007
He received an honorary
Degree of Master in Architecture from the
University of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning
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in 1930, and lectured at The Architectural Association.
[University of Liverpoo]
List of Emeritus Professors, Chairs and Honorary Graduates
p506 (p75 of 81 in this file), accessed 28 December 2007
Bradshaw married Mary Taylor, an
archaeologist
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, in 1918. They had three children: Christopher, a
graphic design
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er; Julian, a
physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
; and
Anthony
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, a professor of
botany
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.
[Barker, Nicolas ]
Obituary: Christopher Bradshaw
', The Independent (London), 29 July 2004, accessed 28 December 2007
References
1893 births
1943 deaths
Architects from Liverpool
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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