Henry Vaughan Lanchester was a British architect working in London.
Background
Lanchester was born in Street John"s Wood, London. His father, Henry Jones Lanchester (1816–1890), was an established architect, and his younger brother, Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), was to become an engineer He was articled to his father, but also worked in the offices of London architects F.J. Eadle, T.W. Cutler and George Sherrin from 1884-1894.
Career
His first architectural work was Kingswood House, Sydenham, in 1892, and he established his own practice in 1894. Lanchester was editor of The Builder from 1910-1912. In 1912, he visited India and prepared a report on the planning of New Delhi as well as preparing plans for Madras.
Town Planning in Madras (1918)
Zanzibar a Study in Tropical Town Planning (1923)
Fischer von Erlach (1924)
Talks on Town Planning (1924)
The Art of Town Planning (1925)
Outline of Studies in Town Planning (1944).