Samuel Rollinson (1827 - 17 April 1891) was an English architect based in
Chesterfield
Chesterfield may refer to:
Places Canada
* Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261, Saskatchewan
* Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom
* Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a market town in England
** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constitue ...
.
Family
He was the son of Samuel Rollinson (b.1801) and Lydia Wardman (b.1806) and baptised on 30 March 1827 in Chesterfield.
On 29 April 1850 he married Lavinia Heald (b. 1830) in Bolsover, Derbyshire. This marriage produced the following children:
*Charles Wardman Rollinson (b. 1851)
*Alfred E Rollinson (b.1854)
*Walter Rollinson (b.1854)
*Frederick S Rollinson (b.1857)
*Arthur H Rollinson (b.1859)
*Tom Rollinson (b.1862)
*Edith L Robinson (b.1865)
*Florence E Rollinson (b.1867)
*Ernest Rollinson (b.1870)
*Anthony Rollinson (1871 - 1903)
On his death in 1891 he left an estate valued at £2,175 17s 3d ().
Career
Initially he started work as a mason, and the clerk of the works to
Chesterfield Grammar School
Chesterfield may refer to:
Places Canada
* Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261, Saskatchewan
* Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom
*Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a market town in England
** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituenc ...
. He then went as a pupil to
Thomas Chambers Hine
Thomas Chambers Hine (31 May 1813 – 6 February 1899) was an architect based in Nottingham.
Background
He was born in Covent Garden into a prosperous middle-class family, the eldest son of Jonathan Hine (1780–1862), a hosiery manufacturer an ...
of Nottingham. When he returned to Chesterfield, he became surveyor of highways, and practiced privately as architect for new property on the estates of the Duke of Devonshire.
One of his earliest projects was the north aisle of Hasland Church.
He set up a practice in Chesterfield and later entered into a partnership with his son, Arthur H. Rollinson, as S. Rollinson and Son.
He was architect to Brampton Brewery in Chesterfield. His son continued the business after Samuel’s death in 1891, designing many notable public houses in Chesterfield.
New buildings
Restorations and alterations
References
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19th-century English architects
1827 births
1891 deaths
People from Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Architects from Derbyshire