Thomas Rayson

Thomas Rayson (5 December 1888 – 28 January 1976) was an English architect who practised in Oxford, and also a watercolourist.

[2] Thomas Rayson married Helen Hilton in 1933, and they had two children: Christopher (1934) and Julia (1937).

[4] Rayson served articles with Robert Curwen of Bishopsgate Street in London, and then studied under Professor Arthur Beresford Pite and James Black Fulton at the Brixton School of Building.

[citation needed] Rayson first came to Oxford in 1910 as an assistant to the architect Nathaniel William Harrison, and in 1911 he was an architectural draughtsman of 22 boarding with his employer’s brother Hude Harrison and his family at 28 Warwick Street in east Oxford.

[7] In 1966 he handed over his office at 29 Beaumont Street to his son Christopher Rayson, who was also an architect, and continued to work with him as a consultant until ill health caused him to retire in 1973/4.