Lewis Hornblower (1823–1879) was a

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

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, who along with French landscape architect

Édouard André Édouard François André (17 July 1840 – 25 October 1911) was a French horticulturalist, landscape designer, as well as a leading landscape architect of the late 19th century, famous for designing city parks and public spaces in Lithuania, ...

was responsible for the design of Sefton Park in Liverpool. Hornblower who had been involved with both

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, in

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, where he had designed the Grand Entrance, and Princes Park, in Liverpool, where he had been involved in architectural work on features such as gates, bridges and lodge houses. Hornblower and André's entry was successful from the twenty nine competition entries received by

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from across the United Kingdom in 1867. A prize of 300

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was awarded.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hornblower, Lewis 1823 births 1879 deaths 19th-century English architects Architects from Liverpool