Thomas Baldwin (1568,

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– 1641,

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) was Comptroller of the King's Works from 1606 to 1641. Baldwin came from a family of Hertfordshire gentry. As Comptroller he seems to have been an administrator rather than an

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but did carry out a number of designs. He designed the Jesus Hospital at

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for the

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in 1623. He is known to have been consulted by the

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in 1632 about the Selden End of the Bodleian Library and he was involved in the extension of

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in 1638-1640 by Henry Rich, Earl of Holland. There is a wall

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to him in the south aisle of St Peter's Church, Berkhamsted by

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(1642).

References

* H.M. Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840'' (1997) 1568 births 1641 deaths 17th-century English architects Architects from Hertfordshire People from Watford 16th-century English people {{England-architect-stub