William Larkins Bernard (born

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, 1 October 1843, died 22 July 1922) was an

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, active in

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and

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member of the

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Career

Bernard was apprenticed to Charles Edward Davis, of

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, between 1863 and 1868. Among his own later pupils was Richard Croft James (1872–1949, of

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) who was articled to him at Bristol from 1889 to 1892. Bernard was President of the Bristol Society of Architects in 1898,Princess Charlotte obelisk
at kcl.ac.uk, accessed 25 November 2008 having previously acted as its honorary secretary, 1888–1890. He is also recorded in 1893 as a

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member of the Sanitary Institute. By 1894, he was a Fellow of the

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. He had an extensive practice as a school architect. In 1889, his offices were at 8, St Stephen's Chambers, Baldwin Street, Bristol, and he was at the same address in 1904. The firm of W. L. Bernard & Sons of Bristol was still active in the 1930s, after Bernard's death, with offices at 26, Orchard Street.

Major works

*Queen Victoria House, Redland Hill, Bristol, 1886 (built for Waynflete Private School for Boys, later used as Bristol Maternity Hospital, now offices) *Vestry at St John the Baptist Church,

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, 1887 *Restoration of Buckingham Baptist Chapel,

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, 1890 *

Fairfield Grammar School Fairfield Grammar School was a secondary school in Bristol, England, founded in 1898 as Fairfield Secondary and Higher Grade School. It became a grammar school in 1945 and closed in 2000, to be replaced by a new comprehensive, Fairfield High Sc ...

, Fairlawn Road, Montpelier, BristolAbout Bristol Suburbs Montpelier Fairfield School
at about-bristol.co.uk, accessed 25 November 2008

References

External links

Library of the Bristol Society of Architects
University of Bristol Library Special Collections {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernard, William Larkins 1843 births 1922 deaths Architects from Bath, Somerset People from Taunton Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects