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Ernest George

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13/06/1839

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15/12/1922

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Ernest George was born in Southwark, London on 13 June 1839 and articled to the London architect Samuel Hewitt 1856-60. In 1857 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, winning its Gold Medal in 1859. For a few months in 1860-61 he was in the office of William Allen Boulnois before embarking on a sketching tour in France and Germany and setting up practice with another Royal Academy Schools student, Thomas Vaughan, born c. 1839, who had won three silver medals there. Vaughan died in 1874 and in 1876 George entered into a second partnership with Harold Ainsworth Peto, born at Somerteyton, Suffolk on 11 June 1854, son of Samuel Peto, railway contractor. Peto had originally trained as a joiner with Lucas Brothers, builders, before joining the office of John Louth Clemence at Lowerstoft for one year and Kerslake and Martiner for two years. After a study tour of Italy, Germany and France he briefly worked with his brothers' contracting firm, Peto Brothers, from 1875. Thereafter the practice was remarkably successful in part through Peto's connections.

Ill health obliged Peto to withdraw from the partnership in 1892, although he went on to establish an equally important independent reputation as an architect of gardens. In the same year George formed a partnership with his chief assistant Alfred Bowman Yeates, who had been born in 1867 and was also a product of the Royal Academy Schools while articled to Arthur Cates.

George was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1896, belatedly elected ARA in 1910, knighted in 1911, and made RA in 1917. He died in London on 15 December 1922. Yeates retired in 1935 and died on 6 May 1944; Peto had died in April 1933.

'Biography authored by the Dictionary of Scottish Architects Compilation Team.'

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
18 Cannon Street Streatham London England	Private/business
6 Inverness Terrace Hyde Park London England	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To
18 Cannon Street Streatham London England	Private/business	1861
11 Argyll Street London England	Business	1881
18 Maddox Street, Regent Street London England	Business	Before 1891	After 1914

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The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Ernest George & Peto	100285	In year 1876	In year 1892	Partner
Ernest George & Yeates	201240	In year 1892	In year 1922	Partner

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The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Stanley Davenport Adshead	100009	In year 1894	In year 1894	Assistant	For a couple of months
William Hodgson Burnet	204548	In year 1902	In year 1902	Assistant
Lionel Francis Crane	408626	c. 1897		Improver

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This person proposed the following individuals for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details):

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Person	Date Proposed	Notes
Jonas James Bradshaw	1885/01/18
(Sir) Mervyn Edmund Macartney	1889/03/11	for Fellowship
(Sir) Herbert Baker	1890/01/13	for Assocateship
Herbert Hardy Wigglesworth	1891/01/12	for Associateship
Francis William Bedford	1891/03/02	for Associateship
William Laidlaw Carruthers	1892/03/07	for Fellowship
David William Kennedy	1893/12/04	for Associateship
Erskine Seaton Cummings	1893/12/04	for Associateship
Paul Waterhouse	1895/03/11	for Fellowship
John James Joass	1895/06/10	for Associateship
Francis William Bedford	1899/12/04	for Fellowship
(Sir) Herbert Baker	1900/01/18	for Fellowship
Herbert Hardy Wigglesworth	1900/03/05	for Fellowship
William Flockhart	1901/02/18	for Fellowship
Henry Blackadder	1906/12/03	for Associateship

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	City or County	Country	Notes
House on Crown Lands	In year 1878	Inverness	Inverness-shire	Scotland
House for J T Mackenzie of Kintail	In year 1879	Loch Dinch	Ross and Cromarty	Scotland
Limekilns Parish Church	In year 1883	Limekilns	Fife	Scotland	Designed pulpit (made by Mitchell & Kinghorn)
War Memorial, Berriedale	In year 1919	Berriedale	Caithness	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
British Architectural Library, RIBA	Directory of British Architects 1834-1914	2001

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