Godfrey Pinkerton

Pinkerton was born at Godstone, Surrey, son of metal broker George Pinkerton (1823 – 1899), son of the missionary and linguist Rev.

Robert Pinkerton, DD- and Mary (née Easum; 1823-1868).

His siblings included the poet and translator Percy Edward Pinkerton.

He was assistant to Henry Saxon Snell from 1880, and started his own practice in London from 1884.

[3] He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institution of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1908 and operated from offices at 39 St Andrew's Square in Surbiton, then 10 Lincoln's Inn Fields before the First World War, and then 2 Gray's Inn Sq, London, WC1.