Lionel Bailey Budden
FRIBA (1887,
West Derby
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History West Derby
Mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'', West ...
,
Liverpool
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– 21 July 1956,
Wirral Peninsula,
Cheshire
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) was an English architect.
Born to William Budden and Elizabeth Adams, Budden attended
Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby is a British independent school for day pupils, located in Great Crosby on Merseyside.
The school's motto is that of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors: ''Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt'' (Small Thing ...
. From 1933 Budden was
Roscoe Professor in Architecture in the
Liverpool University School of Architecture
The School of Architecture is an architecture school in Liverpool, England, and part of the University of Liverpool. It was the first architecture school in the United Kingdom to be affiliated with a university, and the first to have degree pro ...
. He retired in 1952.
He had entered the School in 1905, graduated BA in 1909 and MA in 1910, taught there from 1911 and became Associate Professor in 1924. It was while he was Associate Professor that he contributed the article on
Architectural Education to the fourteenth edition of the ''
Encyclopædia Britannica
The (Latin for "British Encyclopædia") is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It is published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; the company has existed since the 18th century, although it has changed ownership various time ...
'' (1929).
He had been University of Liverpool travelling Scholar in Architecture in 1909, and a student at the
British School at Athens
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1909-1912. He was first an Associate of the
Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA), later becoming a Fellow (FRIBA).
His architectural work included
Birkenhead War Memorial
Birkenhead War Memorial, or Birkenhead Cenotaph, stands in Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, opposite the Town Hall. It consists of a cenotaph in Portland stone with carved figures and panels in Westmorland stone. The memori ...
and
Liverpool Cenotaph
Liverpool Cenotaph stands on St George's Plateau, to the east of St George's Hall in Liverpool, England. It was erected as a memorial to those who had fallen in the First World War. The dates of the Second World War were subsequently added. The ...
; Liverpool Veterinary Hospital and extensions to Liverpool University Students’ Union.
In 1921 he married Dora Magdalene "Maud" Fraser, later known as the creator of ''Curly Wee'', a comic strip for children which ran in the ''Liverpool Echo'' and other newspapers globally between 1937-1967.
Lionel and Maud had a son, the opera scholar
Julian Budden.
[John Amis, "Julian Budden", ''The Guardian'' 7 March 2007 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/07/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries]
For his ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' article, published shortly before the passing of the
Architects (Registration) Act, 1931 see:
Architectural education in the United Kingdom (19c-20c). His School, Liverpool, was one of those listed in the Act for the purpose of constituting the statutory
Board of Architectural Education
The Board of Architectural Education is no longer appointed. It had been a statutory body in the United Kingdom constituted under section 5 of the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931.
The Act was citable with two amending Acts as the Architects ...
.
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1956 deaths
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