Guy Dawber

Edward Guy Dawber was born in Britain in 1861, at King's Lynn, Norfolk, the son of a merchant.

[1] He trained in the practice of Sir Ernest George and Harold Peto, supervising their work on Batsford Park (1887–93), near Moreton-in-Marsh, in the Cotswolds.

[2] Dawber designed the Old Post Office at 25 High Street, Broadway, Worcestershire, which was built in Cotswold stone by Espley & Co of Evesham in 1899 and opened on Friday 1 December 1899.

[5] Working in the Cotswold vernacular tradition,[6] Dawber became a respected and scholarly architect, designing and converting houses such as Nether Swell Manor (1903 and 1909) and Eyford Park (1911–12), both near Stow-on-the-Wold.

In that year he worked on the design of the Reptile House at London Zoo, Regent's Park, opened in 1927.