John Shewell Corder

Corder came from a well-connected Quaker family with links in East Anglia, North England and Berkshire. He was the son of Frederick Corder and Jane Ransome, daughter of James Ransome. Along with other siblings the family moved to Ipswich in 1860. He was given the name of Shewell from Fredrick's mother, Mary Shewell.

During the period 1872-7, Corder was articled to his step-uncle, the architect Joseph Morris based in Reading. Frederic Corder had married Maria Morris, Joseph's sister, both of whom were children of Thomas Morris and Ann Talwin Shewell. • Illustration — Corder worked on the exposed timbers and plaster work of the Black Boy using a Tudor style Corder has been credited with over 100 commissions. These include: • Boscombe House, 65 Anglesea Road, Ipswich, (Grade II listed building) • Hacheston Lodge, The Street, Hacheston • Extra classrooms for Woodbridge School in Burkitt road, Woodbridge, Suffolk, • Work on the Black Boy public house, Sudbury • Tranmer House, 1910. Home of Edith Pretty during the 1938-39 excavation of the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial mounds. He trained Harold Ridley Hooper who later became a prominent Ipswich architect.