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Thomas Simpson (1825–1908) was a British architect associated with the seaside town of Brighton. As architect to the Brighton and Preston School Board and the equivalent institution in neighbouring Hove, he designed "a distinguished group of board schools" during the late 19th century, when the provision of mass education was greatly extended. Many of these schools survive and some have listed status. He also worked on five Nonconformist chapels for various Christian denominations, using a wide variety of materials and architectural styles. He was the father of Sir John William Simpson and Gilbert Murray Simpson, who both became architects. ==Biography== Simpson was born in 1825 in Scotland, where he trained as an architect. After travelling in Germany, he later moved to Brighton and he started his professional career articled to James Charnock Simpson, his uncle.〔 He married Clara Hart and had two sons: John William Simpson (born in 1858)〔 〕 and Gilbert Murray Simpson (1869). They both had long architectural careers: John, who designed public buildings and monuments across Britain,〔 was articled to his father in 1875, as was Gilbert in 1886.〔 Early in his career, Simpson travelled around and studied in Germany—whose approach to mass education and the architecture of its buildings informed his later work on board schools—and later worked alongside Joseph Butler, an architect who specialised in churches.〔 At the time Butler was working in Chichester and was employed as surveyor to Chichester Cathedral. Simpson then became William Butterfield's assistant at his architectural firm in London. After another period working for his uncle,〔 he started his own architectural practice and by 1868 had his office at 16 Ship Street in The Lanes.〔 He entered into a partnership with Henry Branch,〔 and later took on Gilbert as a full partner after he had served his apprenticeship (the practice was known as ''Thomas Simpson & Son'' from 1890.) As well as his completed works on schools and chapels, Simpson was involved with one unexecuted scheme in Brighton. During the period he was in partnership with Henry Branch, they submitted the winning entry for the competition to design a clock tower for an important road junction in central Brighton. Nothing came of their 1881 scheme, though, and the Jubilee Clock Tower was eventually built to the design of a different architect, John Johnson, in 1888. ''The Building News'' of 22 July 1881 published plans and a sketch of Simpson and Branch's proposal and gave a full description. Public toilets would have been placed beneath the main tower of the squat four-sided structure, which was to have been of Portland stone with some granite work. The clock stage of the tower would have been ironwork, and the upper section would have been copper-clad timber. The report also stated that Simpson's working address at the time was 63 High Street, Brighton. In September 2014, conservation group The Brighton Society applied for planning permission to erect a commemorative blue plaque on the Connaught Road School in Hove, one of Simpson's buildings. Hove Civic Society and the Brighton and Hove Heritage Commission were also involved in funding the plaque. In April 2015 The Brighton Society announced the unveiling would take place later that month. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Simpson (architect)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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