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DALE, James	Surveyor.	WORK • No work identified so far. PERSONAL • 53 High Street [1824]
DALLIMORE, John 1799-1883 DALLIMORE, John William 1827-1895	John Dallimore. Architect. Born in Northwood, Isle of Wight, he was a grocer in 1851 and his sons Frank and Charles carpenters. Listed as 'builder's foreman' in 1861, surveyor in 1871 and architect in 1881. His identifiable work in Brighton as listed is from his later years (over 70 years of age) but it is not clear in all cases whether he was responsible for the whole building. John William Dallimore. Architect. Born in Brighton, son of John Dallimore. He was living in Dover in 1861, listed as clerk of works in an engineering department, and in Fareham in 1871 as a contractor and builder employing about 100 men. He appears to have returned to Brighton or Hove by 1881, when he is listed in Pa1881 under the Architects and Surveyors rubric.	WORK old numbering where relevant • 9, 10 Beaufort Terrace (1878) • 81 Buckingham Road (1872) † 3 houses and stables in Circus Street (1873) • 66 Clyde Road (1876) • 54-57 Cobden Road (1879) • 84, 86 Ditchling Rise (1878) • 88 Ditchling Road (1875) • 29-31 Duke's Passage (warehouse, 1874) † Windmill Inn, Dyke Road (cottage, 1874; coach house, 1875) • 126-136 (even), 146, 148 Elm Grove (1880) † 44 Frederick Place (warehouse, 1874) • 46 Gloucester Street (corn store, etc, 1875) • 21 Hanover Street (stables, 1871) • 1, 32, 41, 43, 42-50 (even) Hollingdean Road (1879-1880) • house in Islingword Road (1873) • 187 Lewes Road (stables, coach house, etc, 1874) • 4 houses in Livingstone Terrace (1874) • Ship Inn, Lewes Road (1875) • 28 Luther Street (1880) • 1-7 (odd) Lynton Street (1880) • 59a Middle Street (coach house, etc, 1875) • 20 Montague Street (stables, 1878) † Mission Room, Mount Street (1878) † 7-9 Nelson Row (with stables, 1875) • 255, 257 Queen's Park Road (1880) • 2-14 (even), 23-37 (odd) Round Hill Crescent (1878) • 1 Round Hill Road (shop, house, 1880) • 24-34 (even) Shaftesbury Road (1876) • 27-33, 62-70 (even) Upper Lewes Road (1870, 1877) • 4-13, 15-29 Wakefield Road (1877-1878, 1880) PERSONAL (John) • 30 Trafalgar Street [1851] • 3 Richmond Place [1861-1880] • 14 Lower Market Street [lodging 1881] PERSONAL (John William) • 150 North Street (1881)
DANCY, Stephen 1799-1885 DANCY, William 1832-1872	Stephen Dancy. Carpenter, master builder Born in Slaugham, Sussex. He was declared bankrupt in May 1849 but by 1851 he employed 12 men (1851). The business grew: 8 carpenters, 13 painters, 3 bricklayers, 6 labourers and 3 boys (1861), 15 men (1871). Father of William Dancy, who joined him in the business as co-partners; jointly declared bankrupt 15 August 1870. William Dancy. Builder and surveyor. Clerk to his father, Stephen Dancy, before going into business on his own account as a surveyor and builder by 1861.	WORK (Stephen) • No work identified so far WORK (William) • Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Washington Street (1864) PREMISES (Stephen) • 102 Upper North Street [1843] • 23, 28 and 31 Portland Street [1870] • 41 Upper North Street • 5 Powis Square [1870] PREMISES (William) • 102 Upper North Street [1841-1843] • 28 Portland Street • 31 Grand Parade [1856] • 42 Montpelier Street [1859]
DAVEY, Norman T	Designer.	WORK • St Paul's Church, West Street (altar, 1978)
DAVIE, W Galsworthy	Architect. Prolific author and photographer of Architectural Studies in France (1877), Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Kent and Sussex (1900), Old Cottages, Farm-houss and Other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District (1905) and Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Surrey (1908), etc.	WORK • 77-91 Doone Terrace, Lorna Road (1880) • 4 Third Avenue (1878)
DAVIEL, John Rene Francis 1913-1983	Architect. Partner in Clayton, Black & Daviel.	WORK • St Richard's Church, Beal Crescent (1954) • St Luke's Church, Queen's Park Road (restoration, attrib, 1967) • Church of the Good Shepherd, Stanley Avenue (1967)
DENMAN, John Hubbard Sr 1791-1868 DENMAN, John Hubbard Jr 1814-1887 DENMAN, Samuel FRIBA 1855-1945 DENMAN, John Leopold FRIBA 1882-1975 DENMAN, John Bluet 1914-2002	Five generations associated with the building trade in Brighton and Hove. John Hubbard Denman Sr. Bricklayer. Born at Hurstpierpoint, came to live in Brighton. John Hubbard Denman Jr. Plasterer. Foreman at Cheesman and Son. Born at Hurstpierpoint, son of John Hubbard Denman Sr. His eldest son John William Denman (1843-1878) also became a plasterer and his second son Alfred Michael Denman (1845-1882) a carpenter. His third son was Samuel Denman. Samuel Denman. Architect and surveyor. Son of John Hubbard Denman Jr. Worked c1871 as a builder's clerk in Uckfield, where he also lived c1901 at The Grange, High Street. Diocesan Surveyor for the Archdeaconry of Lewes by 1877. In the late 1880s he designed and built Fulking Grange, a house at the top of Fulking Hill, where the family lived until he let it to Colonel George Gouraud in 1900, then sold the house to Brighton Corporation in 1901 for use as a smallpox isolation hospital. He was a partner with Samuel Matthew as Denman & Matthew [qv below] from 1902 to 1920, joined by his son John Leopold Denman from 1909, and as Denman & Son [qv below] from 1920 to 1930. FRIBA 1931. He was a Brighton borough councillor for St Nicholas Ward (1907-1917), a member of the lighting committee and chairman of the waterworks committee (1917). He was responsible for the design of over 1,630 houses, 60 shops and seven pubs in Brighton and Hove. This listing of buildings is believed to be complete from planning applications. Away from Brighton he designed Lewes Town Hall. He retired in 1930, when J L Denman took over the business, and went to live in Tunbridge Wells, where he died, leaving £40,568 10s 4d. John Leopold Denman. Architect. Born in Brighton, son of Samuel Denman. Attended Brighton Grammar School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Articled to his father. Assistant in the Joseph & Smithem practice in 1907. ARIBA 1909, when he joined Denman & Matthew and in his own practice from then at 27 Queen's Road. He was later a partner with his son John Bluet Denman as Denman & Son. FRIBA 1928. Most of his work was for commercial buildings, noted for a 'well-mannered and individual' neo-Georgian style, suited to the prevailing heritage architecture of Brighton, although he also carried out extensive restorations of churches, including post-war repairs to Canterbury Cathedral. Extensive work for Kemp Town Brewery. A relief by Joseph Cribb on the former Citizens' Permanent Building Society building at 20-22 Marlborough Place depicts Denman. He was president of the Regency Society of Brighton and Hove and vice-president of the Sussex Archaeological Society. He died at Hurstpierpoint. John Bluet Denman. Architect. Son of John Leopold Denman, partner with his father as Denman & Son. Images (left to right): Samuel Denman, John Leopold Denman [Source: RIBA], The relief of J L Denman in Marlborough Place; John Bluet Denman.	WORK (John Hubbard Sr, Jr) • No work identified so far WORK (Samuel) • See below. WORK (John Leopold) • See below. WORK (John Bluet) • See Denman & Son (2) below. PERSONAL (John Hubbard Sr) • 32 Foundry Street [residence 1841-1851] • 19 Frederick Place [residence 1861] PERSONAL (John Hubbard Jr) • 36 (renumbered 39 in 1872) Clifton Street [family residence 1851-1887, deathplace] • 26 Queen's Road [practice 1880] PERSONAL (Samuel) • 36 (renumbered 39 in 1872) Clifton Street [family home 1855-1886] • 4 Warleigh Road [1881] • 67 Warleigh Road [1882-1885] • 47 Warleigh Road [1886] • 26 Queen's Road [1882-1890] • Fulking Grange, Fulking Hill [residence 1891] • 27 Queen's Road [1899-1909] • 8 Clifton Terrace [residence 1905-1911] PERSONAL (John Leopold) • The Knoll, 24 Withdean Road [residence 1913-1917]

WORK (Samuel) *local listing Alphabetical order by place; old numbering where relevant* § also as developer • 1-31 (odd), 2-76 (even), 35-65 (odd) Arnold Street (1880-1881) • 11, 13 Ashdown Road (1883) • 31-73 (odd) Bates Road (1902) • 1, 2-12 (even), 15-31 (odd), 40, 42 and 12 more houses in Baxter Street (1880-1881) • 46-52 (even), 68, 76a, 80-90 Beaconsfield Road (even, shops) 1877-1878, 1881-1882) • 42-48 (even), 81, 83 Beaconsfield Villas (1884, 1894) • 2-24 (even) Bear Road (1884) • 1-7 (odd) Belton Road (1889) • 2-46 (even), 5-39 (odd), 51-57 (odd), 64-72 (even), 81-87 (odd) and 2 more houses in Bentham Road (1879-1880) • 1, 2-46 (even), 43, 45, 49-117§ (odd), 63-82§, 114, 116-126 (even) and up to 43 other houses in Bonchurch Road (1882-1883, 1885, 1889, 1892, 1894, 1896) • 2-34 (even), 9-27 (odd), 45 (shop) Brading Road (1892-1894) • 3-41 (odd) and † bus shed Brewer Street (1882, 1895) † entrance pillars, Bristol Terrace (1893) • 6-28 (even), 37-75 (odd), 72-90 (even) Carlyle Street (1879-1880) • 3 houses in Chapel Street (1877) • 1-21 (odd), 2-28 (even) Chesham Street (1878-1879) • 57, 59 Chester Terrace (1890) • 1, 3, 31-41 (odd) and 4 more houses in Chichester Place (1878-1879, 1882) ? • 18-25 Clifton Road (c.1905) • 19 (shop), 68-78 (even) Clyde Road (1877-1878) • 1 Cobden Road (1878) • 1-9 (odd), 31-53 (odd) Crescent Road (1880-1881) • 1 house on south side of Cromwell Road (1898) • 2-26 (even), 3-11 (odd) Cromwell Street (1880) • 1-1a, 17 and one more house in D'Aubigny Road (1878-1879) • 55-59 (odd), 79, 81, 103, 105, 113-131 (odd), 141-161 (odd), 163-173 (odd), 177-183 (odd) Ditchling Rise (1876-1878) • 292 Stanmer Park Hotel, Ditchling Road PH (1896,) • 105, 107, 255-261 (odd), 296-322 (even), iron church, Ditchling Road (1879, 1896, 1898, 1900-1901) • 2-16 (even) Down Terrace (1896) • one detached house on east side, The Drive (1901) • 16, 17, 107-109 (shop) Dyke Road (1900, 1902) • 185-193 (odd) Eastern Road (1878) • 26-40 (even) Eaton Place (1879) • 18-21 Egremont Place (1894) • four houses in Elder Place (1887) • Race Horse Inn, 212 Elm Grove (1882) • 114-132 (even), 129, 131, 137-151, 138-144 (even), 152-158 (even), 161-183, 162, 176-216 (even), Elm Grove (1879-1880, 1882, 1894) • 20, 28, 52, 54 Florence Road (1886, 1892, 1895)		• Hove Club, Fourth Avenue (1896) • 13-41 (odd), 14-40 (even) and 4 more houses in Franklin Road (1878) • 153-189 (odd) Freshfield Road (1899) • Exchange Inn, 8 Goldstone Street (rebuilt 1892) • 22-28 (even), 38-50 (even) Goldstone Villas (1896-1897) • 1-20 Grant Street (1880) • 1-47 (odd), 53-59 (odd) Hartington Road (1882, 1884) • 18-22 Hastings Road (1879) • 55-61 (odd). 90-96 (even), 109 Havelock Road (1883, 1889, 1891) • one house on east side of Holland Road (1893) • 1-5 (odd) Hollingbury Terrace (1900) • 33 Hollingdean Road (1881) • 45-73 (odd), 58 Islingword Place (1879, 1881) • 19, 49-51 (odd), 90, 114, 115-118, 120-122 Islingword Road (1878, 1880-1881) • 1-6 Jackson Street (1880-1881) • 17, 19 Lancaster Road (1893) • Bear Inn, 109 Lewes Road** (rebuilding 1898) • 56 (shop), 140, 142, 158 (Lewes Road Inn, additions), 185, 187, Bear Cottages, Lewes Road (1880, 1882, 1888, 1898, 1900) • 2-46 (even), 1-97 (odd) Lincoln Street (1880-1881) • Exchange Inn, Livingstone Road (alterations, 1893) • Loxdale, Locks Hill, Portslade (1895-1899) • 10 Lower Rock Gardens and 74a St James's Street (rebuilding, 1880) • 1 Lucerne Road (1890) • 1-27, 31, 38-43 and 7 more houses in Luther Street (1879-1880) • 11-47 (odd), 60 Lynton Street (1880-1881) • 19-21 German Place (Madeira Place) (1882) • 2, 7-13 Mayo Road (1880-1881) • 28-31 Melbourne Street (1879) † 48-49 Middle Street (1882) • 1-11 (odd) Millers Road (1893, 1896) • Eclipse PH (with alterations in 1893) 33 Montgomery Street** (1883, 1886) now Poets Corner • 272-278 (even) and one pair of semi-detached houses on south side, New Church Road (1881, 1898) • Empire Theatre, 16-17 New Road (1889) • 67, 69 Newmarket Road (1883) • 13 Newport Street (1895) † 73, 139-140 North Street, (rebuilding, 1888) † Unicorn PH, 133 North Street, (rebuilding, 1892) • house and showroom in Old Shoreham Road, Aldrington (1889) • 4 Osborne Road (1900) † 1-5 Park Road Terrace [Carlton Place] (1879) • 14-15 Pevensey Road (1880) • 1-27 (odd), 2-42 (even) Picton Street (1878) • 10-18 (even) Port Hall Street (1882) • Aldrington Hotel, 30 Portland Road (1892) • 83 Preston Park Avenue (1882) • Preston Brewery Tap PH, 263-269 (odd, shops) Preston Road (1889, 1896) • 9 (shop), 10, 11 (shop), 12, 27-43 (odd), 59 Princes Crescent (1879, 1881) • 2-2 (even) Princes Road (1879)		• 13-27 (odd) Princes Street (1879) • 7-10 Princes Terrace (1902) • 2-46 (even) Queen's Park Rise (1902) • 1-7 (odd), 17-23 (odd), 13-45 (odd), 44, 181-189 (odd), 194-240 (even), 233-247 (odd), 249 (shop), 259, 261, 279, 293-307 (odd), 311-339 (odd), Queen's Park Tavern PH, three more houses and two shops, Queen's Park Road (1878-1882, 1889, 1893, 1896) • 2, 37-49 Queen's Park Terrace (1895) • 2-12 (even) Reigate Road (1884, 1889) • 9-17 (odd), 16-58 (even), 31a Victoria PH, 33-45 (odd), 62-84, 73-79 (odd), 116-128 (even) Richmond Road (1881, 1887) • 44, 78-80 Richmond Street (1881) • 7-23 (odd), 16-18, 27, 29 Robertson Road (1883-1885) • Hollingbury Hotel PH, 1 Roedale Road (1896) • 53-67 (odd), 58, 68-86 (even), 73-77 (odd), 95-99 (odd) Round Hill Crescent (1879, 1882-1883) • 7-65 (odd), 8-70 (even) Rugby Place (1881, 1899) • 1, 4 Rugby Road (1889) • Rutland Hotel PH, Rutland Road (1895) now Ancient Mariner • Rock Brewery, St James's Street (additions, 1890-1891) • 2-16 (even), 1-9 (odd), 11 (shop), 13-25 (odd) St Luke's Road (1894, 1896, 1899) • 8 St Luke's Terrace (1899) • The Bugle PH, 13, 15, 23-27 (odd) St Martin's Street (1881-1882) • 5 houses in St Nicholas Road (1887) • 4, 5 Scarborough Road (1884) • 1-9 (odd), 11 Shaftesbury Place (1877, 1879) • 100, 102 Shaftesbury Road (1877) • Whychcote, South Street, Portslade (1893-1895) • 14-21, 64-70 Southampton Street (1880) • 48-82 (even) Southdown Avenue (1890) • 24-29 Southover Street (1881) • 7 (schoolroom), 87-93 Springfield Road (1884, 1891) • 121 Stanford Avenue (1888) • Railway Inn PH, 2 Station Road, Portslade** (1900) • 80 Stoneham Road (factory, 1900) † Holly Bush PH, 49 Trafalgar Street [Frederick Place] (rebuilt 1892) • 8-24 (even), 11-23 (odd) Trinity Street (1882-1883, 1895) • 32, 33 Upper Rock Gardens (1879) • 1-27 (odd), 2-24 (even) Upper Wellington Road (1876-1879, 1891) • 10-26 (even), 28-50 (even) Vere Road (1877-1879) • 27-43 (odd), 44, 46 Warleigh Road (1878-1879) • St Paul's Church (alterations) West Street (1897) † King's Head PH, 9 West Street (rebuilt 1897) • 35-69 (odd), 46-52 (even), 71, 74, 77-81 (odd) Whichelo Place (1879-1881) • 38, 43-57 (odd) Whippingham Road (1894) • 1-44 Whitehawk Road (1880)
WORK (John Leopold) • Downs Crematorium, Bear Road (1941) • St Richard's Flats, Church Road, Portslade (1935) • Sussex Eye Hospital, Eastern Road (1934-35) • Library extension, Brighton Hove &Sussex Grammar School, Dyke Road (1936) • Grenadier PH, 200 Hangleton Road (1935) • Baldwin Mausoleum, Extramural Cemetery, Lewes Road (c1930) • The Pylons, London Road, Patcham (1928) • Citizens' Building Society [now Allied Irish Banks], 20-22 Marlborough Place (1933) • Mile Oak Inn, Mile Oak Road (1951) • Hounsom Memorial United Reformed Church, Nevill Avenue (1938) • Windmill Estate, between Nevill Avenue, Holmes Avenue and Hangleton Road (1937-1951)		• Nevill Hotel PH, 214 Nevill Road (1933) • Refuge House, 49-50 North Street (c1950) • Barclays Bank, North Street (1957-59) † Maytree PH, Old Shoreham Road, Aldrington (1928, demolished 2000) • 2-3 Pavilion Buildings (former Brighton & Hove Herald) (1933) • Portland Arms (now Stoneham PH) (1928) • Regent House, Prince's Place (1934) • Sussex Masonic Centre, Queen's Road (1919-28) • Richmond Hotel PH, 33 Richmond Place (1931-34) now The Richmond • 1-6 Rochester Gardens (1928) • Freemasons PH, 39 Western Road, Hove** (remodelling 1928) • Whitehawk Inn, Whitehawk Way (1938)		RESTORATIONS/ADDITIONS: • St Nicholas' Church, Church Street (1909) • St Margaret's Church, The Green, Rottingdean • St Leonard's Church, New Church Road, Aldrington (1970 with John K Wearing; see also Denman & Son (2)) • St Nicolas' Church, South Street, Portslade (1932) • St Paul's Church, West Street

Denman & Hall 1905	Reference to an otherwise unknown partnership at 27 Queen's Road, probably of Samuel Denman and another, occurs in one planning application. (Possibly a transcription error?)	• Shannon House, 45 Dyke Road Avenue (1905)
Denman & Matthew 1902-1920	Architectural firm. Partnership of Samuel Denman and Samuel Matthew at 27 Queen's Road, joined by John Leopold Denman in 1909.	• 107,109 Ditchling Road (shop, 1902) • four houses in Princes Terrace (1902) • Hare & Hounds PH, 75 London Road (1903) • 7 Wilbury Crescent (artist's house and studio, 1903) • 27 houses on north side and 23 houses on south side and a shop, Addison Road (1903-1904) • three houses and a shop on east side of Montefiore Road (1904) • nine houses in Clifton Street (1904) • Aldrington Hotel [now The Westbourne], 90 Portland Road (billiard room at rear, 1904) • 41, 43, 45 and one house on west side of Osmond Road (1904, 1908) • one pair of semi-detached houses on west side of York Avenue (1905) • house in Clifton Hill (1906) • 10 houses in Clifton Road (1906) • six houses on South Avenue, Queen's Park (1906-1907) • 24 houses in Colborne Road (1906, 1909, 1911, 1914) † 33 Dyke Road Avenue (1907) • 13 houses in Arundel Road (1910) • two pairs of semi-detached houses in Erroll Road (1911) • Exchange Inn, Goldstone Street (additions, 1911) • Rutland Hotel [now The Ancient Mariner], Rutland Road (additions, 1911) • bungalow in Freshfield Road (1913) • Arcadia Cinema, 16 Lewes Road (remodelling 1913) • house in Newlands Road, Rottingdean (1913) • 96 Coleridge Street (alterations and additions to factory at rear, 1915) • Downs Road (erection of army huts, 1919) † Congregational Church, Sudeley Place (conversion to King's Cliff Cinema, 1920)
Denman & Son (1) 1920-1930	Architectural firm. Partnership of Samuel Denman and John Leopold Denman [qqv].	WORK † Jolly Sailors PH, Wellington Road, Portslade (rebuilt 1920) • Sussex Masonic Club & Centre, 24-26 Queen's Road (1922-28) • 311, 313 Dyke Road (1923) • 30 Marine Drive, Rottingdean (1923) • 53a Dyke Road Avenue (1924) • 51 Roedean Road (1924) • 33 Goldstone Crescent (1926) † Lion & Unicorn PH, 26 Sussex Street (rebuilt 1926) • The Ship PH, 8 Pelham Terrace, Lewes Road (rebuilt 1928) • Black Lion PH, London Road, Patcham (1928) • house in Newlands Road, Rottingdean
Denman & Son (2) 1946-1965	Architectural firm. Partnership of John Leopold Denman and John Bluet Denman [qqv].	WORK • Harewood Court, Wilbury Road (1947-1956) • St Cuthman's Church, Whitehawk Way (rebuilt after war damage, 1951-52) • Barclays Bank, 139-142 North Street (1957-1959) • Johnson Brothers furniture store, 178-180 Western Road (1966) RESTORATIONS/ADDITIONS: • St Leonard's Church, New Church Road, Aldrington (1954; again 1970 by J L Denman with John K Wearing) • St Mary Magdalene's Church, Coldean Lane (1955) • St Peter's Church, Holmes Avenue (extended, 1960-1963) • St Agnes' Church, Newtown Road (1963-65) • St John the Evangelist's Church, Knoyle Road (1965) • St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street (1965) • St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (chancel ceiling and organ case, 1966) • Holy Cross Church, 44 Tamworth Road (1966) • St George's Church, St George's Road, Kemptown (1967)
DIX, Arthur Joseph 1860-1917	Stained glass designer and maker. He had premises mainly in Berners Street, London.	WORK • St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (glass)
DIXON, Bertram Harold 1865-1939	Architect. Son of a local solicitor, grew up and lived with his parents, unmarried, until he was well into his forties. He married in 1919. In practice with A E Anthony as Anthony & Dixon and retained the practice address after the partnership ended by 1911. He left £46,000 17s 1d.	WORK St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Tamworth Road (1912) • Convent of the Blessed Sacrament, Walpole Road (1913) [now Brighton College Junior School chapel] PERSONAL • 10 Wellington Road [family residence 1881] • Warleigh Lodge, 154 (formerly 90) Ditchling Road [family residence 1887-1920] • 35 East Street [practice 1911-] † Holmfield, Dyke Road [residence 1920-1939]
DOLL, Otto Sigismund 1878-1956	Architect and surveyor. Born in Chelsea. ARIBA 1905. He joined the St Cecilia masonic lodge in Brighton in 1906. He died in Chelsea and left £11,792 10s 1d.	WORK • pair of semi-detached houses on west side of Leicester Villas (1913) PERSONAL • 157 North Street [practice 1906-16]
DONNE, Joseph 1763-1830 DONNE, Philip Joseph 1797-1855 DONNE, George John 1828-1859 DONNE, William 1837-1880	A family of local carpenters and builders. Joseph Donne. Carpenter, builder. Born in Finsbury, London, he came to Brighton c1805 and purchased property at 14-16 York Place in 1820 and by the time of his death owned at least eight properties. Philip Joseph Donne. Carpenter, surveyor, builder, house and estate agent. Son of Joseph Donne. Described as an architect in 1843, surveyor and builder employing five men in 1851. He married Elizabeth Hale Cheesman (1801-1850) in 1818. He was part owner of 164-166 North Street (1842). His family mausoleum is in the St Nicholas Rest Gardens, Dyke Road, where his wife and four children are buried, but he was interred at Brighton Extramural Cemetery with the other seven children. George John Donne. Builder. Elder son of Philip Joseph Donne, he was baptised at St Nicholas' Church by Rev Henry Venn Elliott. In 1850-1857 he had a grocer's shop but following his father's death he took on the family construction business with fellow executor of his father's will, George Hasted Day, and soon after left the shop. He was part owner of 164-166 North Street (1856). Donne and Day were directors of the Brighton and South-Coast Benefit Building Society (No 2), established in June 1859. However, he died a month later of peritonitis and left 'under £2,000'. William Donne. Builder, estate and house agent. Third son of Philip Joseph Donne in turn took over the family business	WORK (Joseph) • 14-16 York Place (1820) Old numbering? Current 15 is the arch to the school buildings` PERSONAL (Philip Joseph) † 15 York Place [1822-1843]old numbering? • 15-16 St George's Street [1841-1846] • 8-9 Trafalgar Street [1851] • 11 York Place [1856-1860] PERSONAL (George John) • 4 Clifton Street [residence 1859] • 11 York Place [deathplace 1859] PERSONAL (William) • 11 York Place [1861-1867] • Trafalgar Street [1867]
DOUBLEDAY, William -1853	Builder. He was resident in Brighton when building the town hall but lived in Twickenham in 1841-1842 and Kensington in 1845-1849, while retaining the freehold of his Brighton house.	WORK ª Brighton Town Hall, Bartholomews (1830-1832) PERSONAL • 3 (later 2) Burlington Street [1832-1839] • Upper Bedford Street [timber yard 1837]
DOUGLAS THOMPSON, Marguerite 1910-1994	Stained glass designer. Lived in later life in Lewes.	WORK • Holy Trinity, Blatchington Road (glass)
Dovey & Howell	Architectural firm.	WORK † 30 Cannon Street (1888) PRACTICE • 114 Queen's Road [1890]
DRUMMOND-ROBERTS, Maud Frances 1876-1966	Wood carver. Born in Brighton, daughter of the Chief Constable of Sussex, George R B Drummond. Wrote about fonts in Sussex churches.	WORK • Church of St Mary, St James's Street (screen) PERSONAL • Flat 1, 13 The Drive [residence 1926-1966]
DUKE, Reginald John 1903-1970	Architect. Born in Eastbourne, son of a gents outfitter. LRIBA 1933. Partner in Andrews & Duke. In 1939 he was living in Kensington on private means.

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