{{Short description|Australian architect (1868–1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
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'''Alfred Edward Simpson''' (29 June 1868 – 9 September 1940) was an architect in South Australia, for 18 years that State's Architect in Chief.
==History== Simpson was born in Woodville, South Australia, the only child of Edward Robert Simpson (c. 1833 – 11 July 1900) of the South Australian Company and Jane Mossman "Jeanie" Simpson née Davie (c. 1837 – 15 April 1910) who married on 28 February 1865. Jeanie married again, to William Gilbert MP on 14 April 1904.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208773956 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |volume=XLI |issue=12,218 |location=South Australia |date=22 June 1904 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Simpson was educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide before being articled to D. Garlick & Son architects. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Architects and on 17 March 1890 joined the S.A. Works and Buildings Department as a draftsman, and was promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Public Buildings in November 1917 and Superintendent in 1920.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65021335 |title=Concerning People |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=LXXXV |issue=22,826 |location=South Australia |date=6 January 1920 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Simpson was elected a Fellow of the South Australian Institute of Architects in 1914. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.<ref name="Collins" /> He was awarded the Imperial Service Order in June 1936.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132207906 |title=Adelaide peoiple honored |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |volume=XXVI |issue=4,031 |location=South Australia |date=23 June 1936 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He retired in June 1938<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137462487 |title=Designer of Parliament Additions Retires at 70 |newspaper=The News (Adelaide) |volume=XXX |issue=4,647 |location=South Australia |date=16 June 1938 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and died two years later.
==Notable works== *Completed Parliament House, Adelaide, also added east wing<ref name="Collins">{{cite web|author=Collins, Susan|title=Architects of South Australia:Simpson, Alfred Edward|publisher=Architecture Museum, University of South Australia|year=2008|url=http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/arch_full.asp?Arch_ID=73}}</ref> *Two-storey extension to Magistrates' Court, Victoria Square 1921, also a three-storey extension 1933. *Adelaide Teachers' College Kintore Avenue 1927<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54099154 |title=Teachers' College |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=XCII |issue=26,706 |location=South Australia |date=22 March 1927 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *"Melrose Wing" extension to Art Gallery of South Australia 1936, also added classical facade and entrance foyer. thumb|caricature by J. H. Chinner ==Family== Simpson married Frances Isabella Kell (died 7 November 1946 at vicarage, North Adelaide) on 7 September 1898. *Brian Kell Simpson (1899– ) married Elsie Gwendoline Sandford Colquhoun (1901– ) in 1927 *Dorothy Mary Kell "Mollie" Simpson (10 March 1903 – 19 May 1970), one of South Australia's first physiotherapists, married Rev., later Canon, Horace Percy Finnis (died 1960) on 6 January 1945. *Bessie Hope Kell Simpson (1905– ) married Eric Alfred Burden (1903–1944) in 1935 **John Edward Burden (b. 27 December 1935) **Robert Michael Burden (b. 25 May 1937) married (1) Margaret Anne Leahy (1937-1996) and (2) Margaret Stewart-Jones on 30 June 2000 ***Michael John Burden (Michael Burden) (b. 14 March 1960) ***Alison Anne Burden (b. 4 October 1961) **Catherine Mary Burden (b. 27 May 1942) They had a home in Watson Avenue, Toorak Gardens. They were not clearly related to the South Australian family of industrialists.
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