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EARP, Thomas
1828-1893
Stonemason.
      Born in Nottingham, working in Lambeth, London by the start of the 1850s. He was regularly employed by G F Bodley, G G Scott and A W N Pugin.
WORK
St Patrick's Church Cambridge Road (roof corbels, 1858)
EASTON, Hugh Ray
1906-1965
Hugh Ray EastonStained glass designer.
      His work includes the Battle of Britain window in Westminster Abbey. Disliked by Betjeman and Pevsner.
WORK
St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (glass)
EDIS, Colonel Sir Robert William KBE CB DL FRIBA
1839-1927
Robert EdisArchitect.
      Associated with Queen Anne/Arts & Crafts design and later the Aesthetic Movement. His military commission was with the Artists' Rifles, part of the Territorial Force. His work included extending and rebuilding Sandringham House for the Prince of Wales.
WORK
Lanes Hotel, 70 Marine Parade [remodelled 1879]
EDWARDS, David FSI MInstCE
1877-1947
Brighton Borough Engineer and Surveyor.
      Born at Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, son of an independent minister. Previously City Engineer at Bath and Borough Engineer at Taunton (1911). He was president of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers 1936-37.
WORK
Aquarium, Madeira Drive [remodelling 1925-27]
three trolley bus shelters, Old Steine (1939)
public conveniences, Old Steine (1926) (now Old Steine cafe)
Black Rock Bathing Pool, Madeira Drive
George Hotel, 1 West Street [remodelling]
Undercliff Walk (1928-1933)
EDWARDS, Richard
1798-1874
Builder and surveyor.
      Born in Hastings. He was buried at Woodvale Cemetery.
WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
67-68 Upper North Street [1843-1848]
34 Clifton Terrace [1850-1852]
Wakefield Villa, 4 Wakefield Road [1856-1873, deathplace]
ELDRIDGE, Father John
Priest. WORK
St Richard's Church, Hangleton (glass)
ELDRIDGE, William Waters
1850-1933
Architect and surveyor.
Son of a Lewes-born architect and surveyor, who left Brighton for Berkshire and then Bermondsey, where William was born, soon before he died in 1852. His local work as an architect was confined to a three-year period at a very young age and evidence for his life is dubious. He married Fanny Harrison (1856-1902) at St Peter's Church, Brighton in 1875. In the following year, when his wife sued for divorce on grounds of physical abuse, he gave his address as that of Holford & Clayton. The case was dismissed and Eldridge soon returned to London, where he held various jobs; in 1880 he married Eliza, a school board teacher, although there is no sign of a divorce being consented. He appears to have been discharged from Lambeth workhouse in 1912 and emigrated to Hobart, Tasmania but the evidence is questionable.
WORK
7 Buckingham Road (1870)
• house in Clifton Street Passage (1871)
† Proposed swimming bath and bathing station, King's Road (1872) not built
16-22 Crown Street (evens) (1872)

PERSONAL
15 Buckingham Street [1870-1874]
ELLICE-CLARK, E B
18??-
Architect and surveyor.
      He was a founder member of the Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors in 1873, when he was working in Ramsgate, along with P C Lockwood. He was appointed Hove Borough Surveyor by 1877 to 1886. [Also identified as E B Clarke and E B Ellis Clark.]
WORK
Anglican and Non-conformist Chapels, Hove Cemetery, Old Shoreham Road (1880)
Hangleton Hospital, Foredown Road (1882-1886)

PERSONAL
11 Denmark Villas [residence 1878-1880]
ELLISON, Christopher Obee FRIBA
1833-1904
C O EllisonArchitect.
      Born in Liverpool, son of an estate agent, he was in practice from c1855, based in Liverpool and London. FRIBA in 1874. His work was mainly for the Methodist Church but he also designed Birkenhead Town Hall. He was the first president of the Society of Architects in 1884 and held a commission as a colonel in the Volunteers.
Image: Building News 20 June 1890
WORK
Norfolk Road Wesleyan Methodist Church (1868, demolished 1965)
Preston Park Wesleyan Methodist Church, Dyke Road Drive (1883, demolished 1974)
Dorset Gardens Wesleyan Methodist Church (1884, replaced 2000)
ELWORTHY, Thomas FRIBA
1825-1899
Thomas ElworthyArchitect and surveyor.
      Born in Bermondsey, Surrey, he was an accountant in 1851, an engraver in 1861 and an architect by 1871. He practised in Hastings, where he was a town councillor and alderman. He was joined in Elworthy & Son with his son Henri Cornelius, was also an FRIBA.
WORK
40, 42 St Aubyns (1877, 1879)
EMERSON, Sir William
1843-1924
Sir William EmersonArchitect.
      Pupil of W G Habershon and A R Pite, then joined the prestigious office of William Burges. Favoured a French gothic style in his church designs. President of the RIBA. Much of his work after 1864 was done in India, although he remained based in the UK. [Not to be confused with the American architect William Ralph Emerson, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson.]
Image: Portrait of Sir William Emerson by James Jebusa Shannon (1904) [RIBA]
WORK
Church of St Mary the Virgin, St James's Street
EVERY, John
1797-1887
Ironfounder.
      Phoenix Foundry in Lewes. Cast much of the ironwork street furniture of Victorian Brighton and Hove.
WORK
seafront railings
lampposts
     

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