Thomas Walter Francis Newton (1862 – 22 January 1903) was an architect based in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

Career

Newton was born in

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in 1862 and educated at Taunton Independent College. He was articled to

Frank Barlow Osborn Frank Barlow Osborn FRIBA (June 1840 - 6 April 1907) was an English architect based in Birmingham. Life He was articled to Charles Edge and then transferred to Samuel Sanders Teulon Samuel Sanders Teulon (2 March 1812 – 2 May 1873) was an ...

and Alfred Reading in

,. He set up in business by himself and entered into partnership with Alfred Edward Cheatle around 1891. He married Fanny Jane Wakeman in 1890. He died of

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on 22 January 1903 at Quarry Farm,

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, Birmingham.

List of works

*134 Edmund Street, Birmingham 1895 *37 and 39 Church Street, Birmingham 1898 *City Arcade, Union Street, Birmingham 1898-1901 *121-123 Edmund Street, Birmingham 1899 *125-131 St Edward’s Chambers, Birmingham 1899 *56-60 Newhall Street, Birmingham 1900 *41 and 43 Church Street, Birmingham 1900 *95 Cornwall Street, Birmingham 1901 *93 Cornwall Street, Birmingham 1902 * Fighting Cocks public house, Moseley, Birmingham 1903

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Newton, Thomas 1862 births 1903 deaths Architects from Somerset Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands People educated at Taunton School Deaths from pneumonia in England