R. W. Symonds

Robert Wemyss Symonds FRIBA (31 December 1889 – 5 September 1958) was a British architect, and "the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture".

[2] In his youth, Symonds had an affair with Lily Sapzells,[3] a woman of Lithuanian Jewish origin, that produced two children, John (1914–2006), an author and the literary executor of Aleister Crowley, and a daughter.

[6] Bamberger was found guilty of eight counts of perjury relating to her testimony in the divorce court and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in a case that was regarded as unusual at the time due to the rareness of prosecutions for perjury arising from testimony in divorce proceedings.

[1] He was consulting architect for the rebuilding of the Middlesex Hospital in 1931–34[2] and after the Second World War for St Swithin's House (1949–53),[10] built on the site of the former Salters' Hall.

[2] Symonds was described by The Winterthur Library as "the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture",[1] of which he was also an important collector.