{{Short description|First woman to become a registered architect in South Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Beverley Bolin | image = Beverley Bolin 1943-01-23 9-41-59 pm.png | caption = in 1943 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1923|01|23}} | birth_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2014|09|19|1923|01|23}} | death_place = [[Southwold]], [[Suffolk]], England | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = first woman to become a registered [[architect]] in [[South Australia]] | education = [[University of South Australia|South Australian School of Mines and Industries]] | employer = | occupation = architect | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Beverley Louise Bolin''' (23 January 1923 – 19 September 2014) was the first woman to become a registered [[architect]] in [[South Australia]]. She graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Architectural) from the [[University of South Australia]] in 1949.<ref name="born"/>
==Early life and education== Beverley Louise Bolin was born in Sydney on 23 January 1923. Ernest William Bolin and Mabel Kathleen Bolin were British immigrants and they soon moved to Brighton in South Australia. They settled in Tranmere in Emerson Grove.<ref name=born>{{cite web|last1=Collins|first1=Julie|title=Beverley Bolin|url=http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/arch_full.asp?Arch_ID=122|website=Architects of South Australia|publisher=Architecture Museum|access-date=16 August 2016}}</ref>
Beverley completed the combined Engineering Degree in Architecture at the [[University of Adelaide]] and Fellowship Diploma of Architecture at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries (now [[University of South Australia]]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43232265|title=University of Adelaide exam results|date=9 Dec 1944|work=The Advertiser (Adelaide)|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref> She was the first woman to become a registered [[architect]] in [[South Australia]].<ref name=born/> While at university, Beverley was active in the Adelaide University Women’s Union as well as [[Wilderness School]] Old Scholars for her former school (McDonough 2012). She also participated into University life through club involvement being including the Adelaide University Engineering Society.<ref name="born"/> Whilst she was studying she was apprenticed to Adelaide architects and she then went on to work for the South Australian Housing Trust.<ref name=ref1950/>
==Career== In 1950, Bolin was working in London where she became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.<ref name=ref1950>{{Cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130792680?searchTerm=beverley%20bolin&searchLimits= |title=SA Woman Architect in London |date=4 Jan 1950 |work=The News |access-date=23 January 2019}}</ref>
In 1988, she was working near Los Angeles where she was the President of the Women’s Architectural League. Despite this in 1998 Bolin was identified as a "Missing Golden Jubilee Graduate".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/script/adelaidean/archive/backissues/Adelaidean-1998-09-14.pdf |title=Missing Golden Jubilee Graduates |page=7 |date=September 14, 1998 |volume=7 |issue=16 |magazine=Adelaidean |publisher=[[University of Adelaide]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418153352/https://www.adelaide.edu.au/script/adelaidean/archive/backissues/Adelaidean-1998-09-14.pdf |archive-date=18 April 2007}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Bolin married Robert D. Carter in London in 1956, with whom she had one son, Christopher.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marriage registration |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=213461615:2496&d=bmd_1669206295 |website=FreeBMD |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref><ref name="Adelaide">{{cite web |title=Beverly Louise Bolin |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25620 |website=University of Adelaide |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref>
Bolin later moved to [[Suffolk]].<ref name="Adelaide"/> She died in [[Southwold]], Suffolk on 19 September 2014, at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite news |title=Beverley Louise Carter |url=https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/182142/carter-beverley-louise |access-date=4 March 2023 |publisher=The Telegraph}}</ref>
==Career== * Lawson and Cheeseman, 1946<ref name="born"/> * South Australian Housing Trust, 1947 * John Grey and Partner - London, 1948 - 1960 * John Grey and Partner - London, 1965 -
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