Arthur Blomfield

St Peter in Eastgate, Lincoln, Southwark Cathedral, London St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana Selwyn College, Cambridge Sir Arthur William Blomfield ARA FRIBA (6 March 1829 – 30 October 1899) was an English architect.

He was the ninth son of Charles James Blomfield, Anglican Bishop of London, who began a programme of new church construction in the capital.

He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 (proposed by George Gilbert Scott, H. Brandon and J. P. Seddon); and vice-president of the RIBA in 1886.

[3] Two of his daughters, Mary Esther and Ellinor Blomfield, were supporters of the suffragette movement and famously made a representation to the King.

He died at the Royal Society in London on 30 October 1899 aged 70 and was buried on 3 November in Broadway, Worcestershire, where he lived at Springfield House.

Denton Hall, 1879–1883
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