Guy Dawber

{{Infobox person | name = Sir Guy Dawber | image = File:Sir_Guy_Dawber.png | birth_date = {{birth date|1861|8|3|df=y}} | birth_place = King's Lynn, Norfolk | death_date = {{death date and age|1938|4|24|1861|8|3|df=y}} | death_place = Hamilton Terrace, London }}

'''Sir Edward Guy Dawber''' {{Post-nominals|country=GB|RA}} (3 August 1861 – 24 April 1938) was an English architect working in the late Arts and Crafts style, whose work is particularly associated with the Cotswolds.

==Biography== thumb|Nether Swell Manor thumb|Reptile House entrance, London Zoo Edward Guy Dawber was born in Britain in 1861, at King's Lynn, Norfolk, the son of a merchant.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203314|title=Sir Guy Dawber|publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|accessdate=22 February 2021|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125075456/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203314|url-status=dead}}</ref> He trained in the practice of Sir Ernest George and Harold Peto, supervising their work on Batsford Park (1887–93), near Moreton-in-Marsh, in the Cotswolds.<ref name="auto1" />In 1896 he married Mary Eccles in Lancashire.<ref name="auto1" />thumb|Chapel of St John the Baptist

In 1897 Dawber designed St John the Baptist's Chapel, Matlock Bath in Matlock Dale, Derbyshire, when he lived locally. It was the only church designed by him.<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1248139|desc= Chapel of St John the Baptist Supporting retaining wall and attached boundary walls, Matlock Bath|accessdate= 18 May 2011}}</ref> Dawber designed the Old Post Office at 25 High Street, Broadway, Worcestershire, which was built in Cotswold stone by Espley & Co of Evesham in 1899 and opened on Friday 1 December 1899.<ref>Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer, Saturday 9 December 1899.</ref> He also designed Bibsworth House, Broadway.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1215625|desc= Bibsworth House|grade=II|accessdate=21 February 2021}}</ref> Dawber sometimes also worked on the landscaping of the estates on which his houses were built, for example at Eyford Park in Gloucestershire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/eyford-park|title = Eyford Park| date=January 1910 }}</ref>

Working in the Cotswold vernacular tradition,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-item/architects-contemporary-with-edwin-lutyens/|title=Architects Contemporary with Edwin Lutyens|publisher=Lutyens Trust|accessdate=22 February 2021}}</ref> Dawber became a respected and scholarly architect, designing and converting houses such as Nether Swell Manor (1903 and 1909) and Eyford Park (1911–12), both near Stow-on-the-Wold. In 1905 Batsford published Dawber's ''Old Cottages, Farm-houses and other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District''. From 1925 to 1927 Dawber was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 1928 he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal.<ref name="auto1"/> In 1926 he played a prominent part in establishing the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, and became its first President. In that year he worked on the design of the Reptile House at London Zoo, Regent's Park, opened in 1927.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zsl.org/history-of-the-reptile-house|title=History of the Reptile House|publisher=Zoological Society of London|accessdate=22 February 2021}}</ref> About 1928 he designed many buildings of Lord Wandsworth College, Hampshire.<ref name="auto"/>

He was knighted in 1936 and died in London on 24 April 1938.<ref name="auto1"/> He is buried at St Giles's church with his parents and brother.

==Works== *St John the Baptist's Chapel, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire (1897, Grade II*)<ref name=NHLEMatlock>{{NHLE|num=1248139|desc=Chapel of St John the Baptist, supporting retaining wall and attached boundary walls|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref> *Nether Swell Manor Farm Cottages, Gloucestershire (1902-04, Grade II)<ref name=NHLECott>{{NHLE|num=1222041|desc=Nether Swell Manor Farm Cottages|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref> *Nether Swell Manor, Gloucestershire (1903, Grade II) and its gatepiers (1906-09, Grade II) and lodge (1903, Grade II)<ref name=NHLENSManor>{{NHLE|num=1221955|desc=Nether Swell Manor and gatepiers attached to north east corner|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref><ref name=NHLEGate>{{NHLE|num=1221977|desc=Gatepiers to east of Nether Swell Manor and walls framing formal garden|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref><ref name=NHLELodge>{{NHLE|num=1221979|desc=Lodge and gatepiers to Nether Swell Manor|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref> *6 Linnell Drive, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Barnet, London NW11 (1908, Grade II)<ref name=NHLE6>{{NHLE|num=1259600|desc=6 Linnell Drive|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref> *Conkwell Grange, Wiltshire (1907, Grade II)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://houseandheritage.org/2016/08/31/conkwell-grange/|title=Conkwell Grange, Conkwell, Wiltshire|date=31 August 2016 |publisher=House and Heritage|access-date=4 July 2022}}</ref> *Burdocks (previously known as Claremont House), Milton End, Fairford, Gloucestershire, (1911, Grade II listed)<ref>{{cite web |title=Burdocks A Grade II Listed Building in Fairford, Gloucestershire |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101089980-burdocks-fairford |website=British Listed Buildings |access-date=26 June 2023}}</ref>

War memorials *Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial, Cotswold, Gloucestershire (1908, Grade II)<ref name=NHLEMoreton>{{NHLE|num=1170425|desc=Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref> *Northiam War Memorial, East Sussex. (1920-21, Grade II)<ref name=NHLENorth>{{NHLE|num=1393848|desc=Northiam War Memorial|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref> *Long Wittenham War Memorial, Oxfordshire. (1920, Grade II)<ref name=NHLELongWitt>{{NHLE|num=1047906|desc=Long Wittenham War Memorial|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref> *Wallingford War Memorial, Oxfordshire. (1921, Grade II)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Builder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DIxAQAAMAAJ|year=1921|page=674}}</ref><ref name=NHLEWall>{{NHLE|num=1048500|desc=Wallingford War Memorial|access-date=19 October 2020|mode=cs2}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Further reading== *A chapter on him in: Reilly, Charles Herbert: ''Representative British architects of the present day''. London: Batsford, 1931. *Obituary notices published in: ''AA Journal'' vol 53, May 1938, p 522; ''Architect & Building News'' vol 154, 29 Apr 1938, p 112, 114, 155; ''Architect & Building News'' vol 155, 15 July 1938, p 61; ''Architects' Journal'' vol 87, 28 Apr 1938, p 685, 691; ''The Builder'' vol 154, 29 Apr 1938, p 824, 827; ''RIBA Journal'' vol 45, 1938, p 631, 633, 666–7, 720; ''The Times'', Monday 25 Apr 1938

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