Lionel Pearson
Illustration — Portrait of Lionel Pearson by Francis Dodd • Illustration — Royal Artillery Memorial Lionel Godfrey Pearson (29 October 1879 – 19 March 1953) was a British architect, best known for the Grade I listed Royal Artillery Memorial, which he designed with the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.
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Lionel Pearson
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- Born
- 1879
- Died
- 1953
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Portrait of Lionel Pearson by Francis Dodd • Illustration — Royal Artillery Memorial Lionel Godfrey Pearson (29 October 1879 – 19 March 1953) was a British architect, best known for the Grade I listed Royal Artillery Memorial, which he designed with the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.
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Pearson was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He trained in Liverpool and then practiced in London, where from 1913, he worked in partnership with Henry Percy Adams and Charles Holden. Earlier work in London from 1901 was with Edward Schroeder Prior. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was the architect of Stanley Spencer's Sandham Memorial Chapel. His architectural work included a number of hospitals. These included the new Westminster Hospital (1939), Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital (1928), Southend Hospital (1932), and the Mineral Water Hospital in Bath. Pearson married Melinda Elizabeth Osborne in 1932. His obituary was published in The Times on 27 March 1953.
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- 1.The Victorian Society. Lionel Godfrey Pearson. A Biographical Dictionary of the Architects of Greater Manchester 1800-1940.
- 2.David Goold. Dictionary of Scottish Architects – DSA Architect Biography Report. Scottisharchitects.org.uk. 16 February 1943.
- 3.British Museum. Term details. 20 March 2015.
- 4.Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. Lost Hospitals of London.
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