Background
Arnold Thornely was the son of a cotton mill manager, born in 1870 in Godley, which was at that time in Cheshire.
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Arnold Thornely
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He was educated at a grammar school in Derbyshire, and then at the Liverpool School of Artist
Career
Although most of his designs were for buildings in Liverpool and the northwest of England, he is best known for the Parliament Buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland (commonly known as Stormont). After being articled to Francis Usher Holmes and George Holme, he became an assistant in the Liverpool firm of Willinck and Thicknesse. In 1898 he established his own practice in Liverpool.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1907, and was President of the Liverpool Architectural Society in 1910-1911.
In his later years he lived in Cobham, Surrey, where he died in 1953. His estate amounted to over £89,000 (£2,220,000 as of 2016).
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