William Willmer Pocock (8 May 1813 – 18 September 1899) was a British architect. He was born in

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, the son of the architect William Fuller Pocock (1779–1849) and his wife Fanny née Willmer. In 1865 he stood unsuccessfully as the

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candidate in the 1865 General Election in

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and unsuccessfully again as the Liberal candidate against

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in the 1866

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in again Guildford. In 1883 Pocock was the Master of the

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. On 6 November 1840 he married builder's daughter Sophia Archbutt (1815–1889) at St Luke's church in

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in London. Their children were: William Archbutt Pocock (1842–1901); Sophia Elizabeth Pocock (1844–); Alfred Willmer Pocock (1847–1906); Alice Mary Pocock (1851–1934); Lucy Maude Pocock (1852–); Maurice Henry Pocock (1854–1921), and Emma Clare Pocock(1856–1866). His great-grandson was the author H. R. S. Pocock. In 1877 the architect

Joseph Lancaster Ball Joseph Lancaster Ball (1852–1933) was an English architect. Born to a Methodist family in Maltby in Yorkshire, Ball was articled to the architect William Willmer Pocock in London in 1877, and moved to Birmingham in 1880 to set up in private pr ...

was articled to Pocock. W W Pocock died at his home in

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in 1899. There is a stained glass window memorial dedicated to Pocock at

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on the

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in London.

Buildings

Pocock was responsible for the design of, among others: * The

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, London * The hall of the

in the City of LondonThe Second Hall of The Carpenter's Company
/ref> * Wesleyan Chapel, Market Square,

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(1852; now in secular use) * Wesleyan Chapel, St Peter Street,

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(1864; now in secular use) * Wesleyan Chapel,

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(1865–66; now in secular use) * Central Methodist Church,

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(1875;

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1980) * Wesleyan Chapel, St Peter's Road,

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, Hampshire (1871; now the church hall of St Peter's Church) * Wesleyan Methodist church,

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, Hampshire (1877) * Sackville Road Methodist Church,

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, East Sussex (1896)

Publications

''Darwinism a Fallacy''
(1891)
''A Layman's View of the Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch''
(1894)
''A Sketch of the History of Wesleyan-Methodism in Some of the Southern Counties of England''
(1885)
''Chertsey Abbey''
(1858)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pocock, William Wilmer 1814 births 1899 deaths 19th-century English architects Architects from London People from Knightsbridge