Francis Houlton Wrench

Francis Houlton Wrench LRIBA AMICE (29 August 1869 - 17 November 1939) was an architect based in Sheffield.

[1] He was born in 1869 in Baslow, Derbyshire, the son of Lieut-Colonel Edward Mason Wrench MVO, VD, FRCS (1833-1912) and Anne Eliza Kirk (1831-1920).

He was then articled to Messrs. T. Meik & Sons from 1889 to 1890, then the Eyemouth Railway & Harbour company 1891–93.

In 1895 he joined Sheffield Corporation Architects’ Department at a salary of £150 per annum.

He died at The Hall Cottage, East Markham in November 1939 and left an estate valued at £7,815.