Harry Beswick (architect)

Harry Beswick FRIBA (1856 – 8 July 1929) was County Architect for Chester from 1895[1] until 1926.

He was articled to Thomas Meakin Lockwood of Chester from 1871 and later returned as his Managing Clerk in 1881.

[3] In 1905 he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He was born in 1855, the son of William Beswick (1822–1887) and Mary Morley (1825–1915).

On 12 August 1882 he married Edith, daughter of Charles Anderson at Aldford Parish Church.