Cyril Farey

During the First World War he served in the Royal Army Service Corps, attaining the rank of captain.

Farey also worked for a period in the offices of Sir Ernest Newton RA, before setting up his own architectural practice.

[2] He became perhaps the most renowned British architectural draughtsman of the twentieth century, providing commissioned illustrations for numerous leading architects including Edwin Lutyens and Frank Lloyd Wright and was considered along with William Walcot to be one of the preeminent architectural draftsmen of the period.

Farey travelled extensively in Europe and was commissioned to provide technical illustrations for both Frank Lloyd Wright's 1923 Tokyo Imperial Hotel and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Other illustrations he is known for include: He partnered with Graham Dawbarn and in 1924 they provided the winning design for classroom and administrative structures of Raffles College in Singapore.