Arthur John Hope

Hope was born on 2 October 1875 Atherton in the historic county of Lancashire.

Hope was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects as a licentiate in July 1911 after being proposed by his partner John Bradshaw Gass and Paul Ogden.

[1] Hope was respected as a building planner but was a poor draftsman[2] and required a large number of assistants to interpret his ideas.

[3] One of his interpreters was George Grenfell Baines whose work so impressed Hope he considered making him a partner.

[3] Hope was a traditionalist, favouring a severe classical style derived from the later Georgian architects, with a strong dislike of Modernism; under his direction Bradshaw Gass & Hope continued to produce neo-Georgian designs until the 1960s.