Robert Palmer Browne (30 January 1803 – 18 December 1872) was a British architect who was closely associated with the General Steam Navigation Company in the mid-nineteenth century but who also designed residential, church and public buildings, some of which are now listed by Historic England.
Early life
Robert Browne was born in 1803 to Robert and Winfield Browne.
Career
He was the architect and surveyor to the
General Steam Navigation Company
The General Steam Navigation Company (GSN), incorporated in 1824, was London's foremost short sea shipping line for almost 150 years. It was the oldest shipping company in the world to begin business with seagoing steam vessels.
Foundation
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of London. He was responsible for a number of the firm's works at Coldharbour in London after they bought land and leases there from 1842. These included two piers in front of the pre-existing Brown's Wharf and Stewart's Wharf, and a new wharf at London Bridge in the 1860s.
[Southern Blackwall: Coldharbour.]
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In 1860 he was practising from 15 Royal Place,
Royal Hill, Greenwich.
Death
Browne died at Royal Place, Greenwich, on 18 December 1872. His executor was his brother George Henry Browne, gentleman. He left an estate of under £8,000.
Notable works
*
Woolwich Road Workhouse and Vanburgh Hill Infirmary, East Greenwich. (1839)
* St Mary Magdalene Church, St Marys Road, Peckham, London. (1839–41)
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Westbourne Terrace
Westbourne Terrace is a street in the Paddington district of the City of Westminster in west London. The street runs between Westbourne Bridge in the north and the junction of Westbourne Crescent and Sussex Gardens in the south and was develo ...
, London.
Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
(by 1849)
*
Petham House, Kent, for
Thomas Henry Mackay. (c.1850)
References
1803 births
1872 deaths
Architects from London
People from Lambeth
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