Basic Biographical Details

Name: Turner & Williamson
Designation:  
Born: 1861
Died: 1874
Bio Notes: Thomas Turner was born in Dublin shortly before 1820, the son of the ironfounders and glass-house specialist Richard Turner. He was articled in that city to the Welsh architect Jacob Owen, architect to the Board of Works, probably c.1835, but moved to Belfast in the early 1840s as senior assistant to Charles Lanyon, County Surveyor of Antrim, and remained with him for ten years.

Turner first came into prominence in 1841 when he and his father produced a competition design for the Crystal Palace which attracted wide publicity. Turner commenced independent practice in that year at 8-9 Donegal Place, Belfast, attempted to form a partnership with Thomas Jackson but negotiations broke down and in 1861 he formed a partnership with Richard Williamson, County Surveyor of Derry as Turner & Williamson which brought an office in Londonderry, and then formed a partnership in Belfast with Thomas Drew, born 1838 and a pupil of Charles Lanyon. In the same year, 1861, he opened a Glasgow office at 204 West George Street to deal with a large commission for the Houldsworths at Coltness, Lanarkshire. It was kept separate from the Belfast and Londonderry practices and continued until 1871 but its main business seems to have been as an agency for his father's greenhouses.

The partnership with Drew was dissolved in 1865 and that with Williamson ended with the latter's death in 1874. He then went into partnership with a civil engineer, Hume Babbington, and was appointed County Surveyor of North County Dublin in 1883.

Private and Business Addresses

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 AddressTypeDate fromDate toNotes
Item 1 of 1Londonderry, Northern IrelandBusiness   

Employment and Training

Employees or Pupils

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 NameDate fromDate toPositionNotes
Item 1 of 2Richard Williamson  Partner 
Item 2 of 2Thomas Turnerc. April 1861 Partner 

References

Bibliographic References

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 Author(s)DateTitlePartPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 1Dixon, Hugh and Rowan, Alastair1973The architecture of Thomas Turner Country Life, 24 May 1973