Architects

Name:

John Reginald Best

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Architect

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08/07/1925

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1866

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31/12/1950

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Bio Notes :

John Reginald Best was born in 1866. He was articled to Cole Alfred Adams in London in 1883 and gained some experience as a clerk of works to the scholar architect John Alfred Gotch. He worked in the office of John Thomas Wimperis and attended the Architectural Association prior to passing the qualifying exam in 1889 and being admitted ARIBA on 3 June of that year, his proposers being Adams, Thomas Verity and Herbert Duncan Appleton. He subsequently worked in partnership with Charles Ashton Callon before being taken into partnership by Edmund Walter Wimperis, son of John Thomas and by then sole partner of the firm, sometime between 1900 and 1903.

The Wimperis & Best partnership seems not to have been a success and was dissolved in or about 1910 when Edmund Wimperis succeeded Colonel Estace Balfour as architect to the Grosvenor Estate.

Best died on 31 December 1950. Best's RIBA obituarist credits him in particular with the restoration of a number of old houses and with the design of the Technical School at Bootle which was completed in 1900. .

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

Private Addresses2 classic

Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
42 Lansdowne Gardens Lambeth London England	Private/business
Vallenders Burgh Heath Road Epsom Surrey England	Private
Islington Alton Hampshire England	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
42 Lansdowne Gardens Lambeth London England	Private/business
2 Prince's Mansions Victoria Street London England	Business
6 Vigo Street London England	Business

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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
Cole Alfred Adams	203708	1883/10	1886/03	Apprentice
John Alfred Gotch	204865	1886/03	1886/11	Clerk
Cole Alfred Adams	203708	1886/11	In year 1887	Apprentice
Wimperis & Best	201559	1900 or 1901 or 1902\|1903	c. 1910	Partner
Best & Callon	202501	Before 1898	In year 1903	Partner
John Thomas Wimperis	203571	In year 1887	In year 1888	Assistant

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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
William Roderick Macdonald	Late 1910s	for Licentiateship

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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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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
RIBA Journal		1951/03	v58	p202 - obituary

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