Philip Dowson

He was then accepted to read engineering at Clare College, Cambridge, but soon after matriculation was called up for officer training in the Royal Navy.

[7] (He was later to design four student accommodation blocks in Stavertonia, a residential building complex in North Oxford commissioned by University College in the 1960s.

[8][9]) He remained with the Navy throughout the Second World War and was only demobilised in 1946, when he was briefly sent to a sanatorium in Mundesley, Norfolk, after contracting tuberculosis.

[6] On leaving the Navy Dowson returned to Clare College, but switched to fine art, which included a course in architecture.

[10] National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/71) with Dowson in 2002 for its Architects' Lives collection, held by the British Library.