Roger Cunliffe, 3rd Baron Cunliffe (born 12 January 1932), is a retired architect and consulting project manager. He specialised in project strategy, particularly for office buildings, museums and exhibition complexes, and for city planning, both in the UK and overseas. He designed various museums and office buildings, and was the job architect of the listed

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in Holland Park, London. He and his wife now have a small farm and woodlands in Suffolk. The title of baron was granted to his grandfather, who was Governor of the

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from 1914 to 1918, on 14 December 1914.

Background

Roger Cunliffe was born at

Furneux Pelham Furneux Pelham or Furneaux Pelham is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The village is one of the Pelhams, part of an early medieval larger swathe of land known as Pelham including Brent Pelham to the north and Stocking P ...

, Hertfordshire, on 12 January 1932, the eldest son of Rolf and Joan Cunliffe. He had two older sisters, Shirley (died 2007) and Corinna, and one younger brother Merlin. His father was a banker by trade and a wartime wing-commander in the RAF. He was also an avid collector of Chinese artworks and became the honorary keeper of the Far Eastern collections at the

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. Cunliffe (BA, MA) switched from engineering to architecture at

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, after attending

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. He continued his education at the

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(AADipl) and the Open University. He moved his family to Chicago in the US in 1960 to work with the architect

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. They returned to England in 1963. He was made the Director of the Architectural Association 1969–1971. He worked for

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and was later director of Exhibition Consultants Ltd. Among his qualifications and professional associations were the following: RIBA, MCMI, MAPM; board member of

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, Goldsmiths College and the College of Estate Management (Hon Fellow); Vice-chairman, British Consultants Bureau; Court of the Goldsmiths Company (Prime Warden 1997–1998); Trustee, William Blake Trust; Chairman of the Suffolk Craft Society; Hon DUniv University Campus Suffolk. Cunliffe was awarded an honorary doctorate from the

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in 2008. He married Clemency Ann Hoare in 1957 after meeting her while they were both working in Greece. They have three children. He has written for the national and professional press, and co-authored two books: ''Office Buildings'' with

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in 1962 and ''Tomorrow's Office'' with Santa Raymond in 1995.

Arms

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References

*Beamish, David. ''United Kingdom peerage creations 1801 to 2005: a list compiled by David Beamish''. *Black, Adam and Charles, ''Who's Who'' (1964). *Debretts, ''People of Today'' (1994). *Raymond and Cunliffe ''Tomorrow's Office'' (1997). *Bonham's catalog 1793 ''The Cunliffe Collection'' (2002). *University Campus Suffolk web site article 15 July 2008. http://www.ucs.ac.uk/about/News/16072008.aspx *David Hencke, Westminster correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 26 November 2004. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cunliffe, Roger 1932 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Living people Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom People from Furneux Pelham

Cunliffe Cunliffe as an English surname derives from a former place near Rishton, Lancashire. Notable people with the surname include: *Baron Cunliffe, of Headley in the County of Surrey *Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), Professor of European Archaeology at th ...