Background
HALL, Edwin Thomas was born in 1851 in Suffolk.
HALL, Edwin Thomas was born in 1851 in Suffolk.
Studied at South Kensington School of Art. Office of late J. Fogerty. Commenced practice, 1876.
Professional work: churches, mission halls, mansions, public buildings, hospitals, including St. Ermin’s Hotel, Westminster, Park Hos- 868 pital, Hither Green, South-east, Plaistow Hospital, St. George’s Children s Home, Chelsea. Library, Dulwich College.
Head offices of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, Victoria Embankment. National Press Agency building. Seacrolt and Killingbeck Hospitals, City of Leeds.
Camberwell Infirmary and Guardians’ Offices. Sanatorium, Frimley; New Royal Infirmary, Manchester, in conjunction with a Manchester colleague. Consulting Architect to the Robroyston Hospital for the City of Glasgow.
Designed several blocks of offices and large factories in London (including Messrs. J. Epps’ Cocoa Works and Sir J. Causton and Son’s Printing Works), several houses in Cadogan Square and Pont Street, and in the country. Literary work: Victoria, the Last Progress (a poem).
Many essays and papers. Chairman Estates Governors of Dulwich College. A Governor of Dulwich College and of James Allen’s Girls’ School.
A Trustee of Dulwich Chapel. A Vice-President of the Architects’ Benevolent Society. Was President of Section of Architecture and Engineering at Sanitary Congress at Bristol, 1906.
Architect to the British Home and Hospital for Incurables. Royal Naval School and the Camberwell Guardians. One of architects to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, etc. A Past Vice-Presidentofthe Fellow and MemberofCouncil of Royal Sanitary Institute.
Royal Institute of British Architects. Clubs: Arts; Dulwich. T.: 3176 Central.
Golf.
Spouse 1878, Florence, daughter of Julian Byrne.