Lionel Bailey Budden FRIBA (1887, West Derby, Liverpool[1] – 21 July 1956, Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire[2]) was an English architect.
It was while he was Associate Professor that he contributed the article on Architectural Education to the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1929).
In 1921 he married Dora Magdalene "Maud" Fraser, later known as the creator of Curly Wee, a comic strip for children which ran in the Liverpool Echo and other newspapers globally between 1937-1967.
[5] For his Encyclopædia Britannica article, published shortly before the passing of the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931 see: Architectural education in the United Kingdom (19c-20c).
His School, Liverpool, was one of those listed in the Act for the purpose of constituting the statutory Board of Architectural Education.