Charles Fitzroy Doll

Charles Fitzroy Doll JP, FRIBA (1850–1929), was an English architect of the Victorian and Edwardian eras who specialised in designing hotels.

[1] Doll was educated in Germany, and on his return to Britain he trained as an architect under Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt.

[2] Doll engaged the sculptor Henry Charles Fehr to model the four life-size statues of British Queens, who look down from above the main front entrance.

The hotel's restaurant, until recently named Fitzroy Doll's, is said to be almost identical to the RMS Titanic's dining room which he also designed.

Their five children included Christian Charles Tyler Doll, who inherited his father's architectural practice and who was involved in the reconstruction of the grand staircase of the Palace of King Minos at Knossos in Crete.