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(Miss) Margaret Justin Blanco White

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12/11/1911

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11/01/2001

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(Miss) Margaret Justin Blanco White was born on 11 December 1911. She came from an intellectually distinguished family. Her father, George Rivers Blanco White, was a lawyer who defended suffragettes and 'Irish conspirators'. He was called to the Bar in 1936. Her mother was the writer Amber Pember Reeves who had connections with New Zealand.

From September 1929 she studied at the Architectural Association in London. In 1931 she was awarded a travelling scholarship by the AA with which she visited Austria. In 1932 she travelled in Russia and Germany and the following year, 1933, she was Henry Jarvis Student and she made a study tour of France. She sat the RIBA final examination in July 1934. It is not yet clear where she worked from 1934-38 but in 1936 she married Conrad Hal Waddington. He was a lecturer in Genetics and Fellow at Christs College Cambridge. The couple had two daughters. In the period 1938-39 she worked in an office in the United States. She was elected ARIBA in 1939, her proposers being Howard Robertson, E Maxwell Fry and C Dudley Harbron. At the time of her application she was working in an office in Hull. Her home address (perhaps she worked from there as well?) was Morton Hall, near Liberton.

In the late 1940s (?) Margaret took post with the Civil Service post in Edinburgh. She was elected FRIAS in 1964.

In the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 1973 she was awarded the OBE for her work as superintending architect of the Scottish Office. She pioneered development work in standards for low-cost housing and contributed to the design of houses for old people. She wrote what was to become a definitive work on the design of hospital casualty and out-patient departments, a book later used all over the United Kingdom.

By 1987 she had retired and moved to Italy. She died on 1 November 2001 in Cambridge. Her husband had died in 1975. She was survived by her daughters, Dame Caroline Humphrey, an anthropologist and Professor Margaret Dusa Waddington McDuff, a mathematician, both of whom are highly distinguished in their fields.

Publications:

Ekistics: Special issue. Delos 3: report of the third symposium, July 12-19. October 1965
Article by C. A. Doxiadis, R. Buckminster Fuller, S. Giedion, P. Johnson-Marshall, R. Matthew, M. Mead, C. H. Waddington and M. J. Blanco White
Citation: 1965 Oct.
Includes portraits

The casualty department.
Article by M. J. Blanco-White and P. C. Rendle
Architects' Journal 1960 July 7, p. 39-44.

The school looks around : a book for teachers about local surveys / by Elizabeth Layton and Justin Blanco White ; (Association for Education in Citizenship)
London : Longmans, Green : Association for Education in Citizenship, 1948.

System of construction for a house of steel : scheme for 3-bedroom house alternative designs.
Article by Max Lock and Miss Blanco White
Architects' Journal 1945 Oct. 4, p. 245-258

Manchester [District] planning scheme, by R. Nicholas.
Article by J. Blanco White
Architects' Journal
1945 Sept. 6, p. 169-172.
Review.

Housing standards: the requirements of good housing.
Article by J. Blanco White
Keystone 1937 June, p. 11

Industrial housing in wartime : results of a competition organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
London : R.I.B.A., [1940].
29 p. : plans ; 26 cm.
Illustrates competition entries from: R.G. Brocklehurst, Rodney Thomas, Mary Crowley, Justin Blanco White, Erno Goldfinger, J.G. Ledeboer George Fairweather, R.A. Horsman, Forbes MacLennan & Partners, Frederick Gibberd, Halliday & Agate, Stella Scott, Ewart Redfern, Alec Bellamy and others.

The design of huts.
Article by Justin Blanco-White
Keystone 1942 Feb., p. 11-13.
Illustrations: Includes sketches

Housing forum. 3, Number on rural housing.
Articles by Edric Neel and J. Blanco-White and by B. S. Townroe
Architectural Design & Construction March 1943
Ministry of Health emergency agricultural programme -- Local authority housing. iii -- Cottage flats in Wales

Physical planning supplement: Manchester and district planning proposals.
Article by Justin Blanco White
Architects' Journal vol. 102, 1945 Sept. 6, p. 169-171.
Contents: Proposals prepared by R. Nicholas, City Surveyor and Engineer

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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
44 Downshire Hill Hampstead London England	Private
Morton Hall Liberton Edinburgh Scotland	Private
15 Blacket Place Edinburgh Scotland	Private
Villa Gelli/57022 Castagneto-Carducci Livorno Italy	Private

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29 Grove Street, Beverly Road Hull England	Business
8 The Park Hull England	Business
10 Dundonald Street Edinburgh	Business	along with Rachel Wilson and Albert Abbott, per Builder 31 January 1958 p214
Newington Cottage/15 Blacket Place Edinburgh Scotland	Business

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

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Proposer	Proposer Link	Date Proposed	Notes
(Sir) Howard Morley Robertson	204577	1939/12/12	For Associateship
E Maxwell Fry	400223	1939/12/12	For Associateship
C Dudley Harbron	405273	1939/12/12	For Associateship

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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
Robert Mather Godfrey	1968/02/07	for Fellowship
Thomas Ronald Wilson	1968/02/07	for Fellowship

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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
Shawms	In year 1938	Cambridge	Cambridgeshire	England
School and holiday camp competition entry	In year 1939			England
Industrial housing competition entry	In year 1939			England
Leith Fort Housing	1957/11	Leith	Edinburgh	Scotland	with Rachel Wilson and Albert Abbott - 3rd, per Builder 31 January 1958 pp214, 221-223

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1963-64	1964
RIBA	RIBA Directory 1970	1970
RIBA	Directory of members	1979
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951	1950	London: Royal Institute of British Architects

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Periodical Name	Date Circ	Notes
Builder	1958/01/31	'Housing Development, Leith Fort, Edinburgh,' pp214, 221-223, includes site plan, plans and elevations
The Times	1907/01/12	p11 Father's Law exams
The Times	1936/02/18	p4 Father called to Bar as KC
The Times	1945/10/22	p1 Birth of daughter
The Times	1975/09/29	p 14 Death of husband
Glasgow Herald	1975/06/02	p5
The Times	1936/08/14	p1 Marriage
The Times	1966/03/29	p12 Death of her father (gives mother's name)

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The following archives hold material relating to this person:

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Notes
Records of membership	RIAS, Rutland Square	201006
RIBA Nomination Papers	RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum	100005	A no7285 (Combined Box 182)
RIBA MSS Collection	RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum	100035

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