Richard Horton Beauclerc Toy (9 May 1911 – 2 July 1995) was a New Zealand architect renowned for his church architecture. Toy was born in

Ignace Ignace is a township in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located at Highway 17 (Trans Canada Highway) and Secondary Highway 599, and on the Canadian Pacific Railway between Thunder Bay and Kenora. It is on the shore of ...

, Ontario, Canada in 1911. His family moved to New Zealand in 1923. He enrolled in agriculture at

Auckland University , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

in 1930 before changing to architecture. From 1939 he taught for many years at the Auckland School of Architecture, acting as the Chair of Design from 1959 to 1976. Toy's best known churches are in Auckland and include the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell, New Zealand, Parnell, St Martin's at St Chad's in Sandringham, New Zealand, Sandringham and All Saints, Ponsonby, All Saints in Ponsonby, New Zealand, Ponsonby. In the 1982 New Year Honours he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to architecture.''London Gazette'' (supplement), No. 48839, 30 December 1981
Retrieved 12 May 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Toy, Richard New Zealand architects University of Auckland alumni 1911 births 1995 deaths People from Kenora District Canadian emigrants to New Zealand Academic staff of the University of Auckland New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Canadian architects