Sir Stirrat Andrew William Johnson-Marshall,

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and one of the founders of

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along with

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Early life & studies

Stirrat Johnson-Marshall was born in 1912 in

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, India. He was the son of Felix William Norman Johnson-Marshall, a

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who worked abroad and his wife, Kate Jane Little. He was educated at the Queen Elizabeth School in

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and from 1930-1935 he studied architecture at the

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Career

In 1934 he worked as an assistant at Mercalf & Metcalf and the following year he assisted the Borough of Willsden, Architect's Department. During the Second World War, he served with the

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. After the war he worked as Deputy County Architect in

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. In 1948, he became Chief Architect in the Ministry of Education. In 1956, with fellow architect

, he established the firm of

(Robert Matthew, Johnson Marshall) in Edinburgh and London. Johnson-Marshall managed the office in London. He retired from the firm in 1978 and moved to Gloucestershire. He died on 16 December 1981 in his Bristol office.

Personal life

In 1937, he married Joan Mary Brighouse, whom he had met at the University of Liverpool. They had three children. His younger brother

Percy Johnson-Marshall Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (20 January 1915 – 14 July 1993) was a British urban designer, regional planning, regional planner and academic. Born in India, he was educated at Liverpool University ...

was a British urban designer.National Life Stories, 'Johnson-Marshall, Percy (1 of 3) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1990
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Honours

In 1936, he was elected

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, his proposers being Lionel Bailey Budden, Leonard Holcombe Bucknell and Gilbert Henry Lovegrove. In 1954, he was awarded a

. In 1964, he was elected

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, his proposers being

, Peter Arthur Newnham and Maurice William Lee. In 1971 he was

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ed.

References

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