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SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM BLOMFIELD (1829-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:ARTHUR See also:WILLIAM See also:BLOMFIELD (1829-1899)  , See also:English architect, son of See also:Bishop C . J . See also:Blomfield, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:March 1829, and educated at See also:Rugby and Trinity, See also:Cambridge . He was then articled as an architect to P . C . Hardwick, and subsequently obtained a large practice on his own See also:account . He became See also:president of the Architectural Association in 1861, and a See also:fellow (1867) and See also:vice-president (1886) of the Royal See also:Institute of See also:British Architects . In 1887 he became architect to the See also:Bank of See also:England, and designed the See also:law courts See also:branch in See also:Fleet See also:Street, and he was associated with A . E . Street in the See also:building of the law courts . In 1889 he was knighted . He died on the 3oth of See also:October 1899 .

He was twice married, and brought up two sons, See also:

Charles J . Blomfield and See also:Arthur Conran Blomfield, to his ownprofession, of which they became distinguished representatives . Among the numerous churches which See also:Sir Arthur Blomfield designed, his See also:work at St Saviour's, See also:Southwark, is a notable example of his use of revived See also:Gothic, and he was highly regarded as a restorer .

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