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McGUINNESS, Valentine George
1841-1908
Civil engineer.
      Born in Umballah, India, son of a Scottish-born draper and clothier at 92 Gloucester Road (1885). He was a clerk for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway 1878-1879 before becoming an engineer. He emigrated to South Australia in 1888, moved to New South Wales in 1891 and died there.
WORK
• No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
7 Upper Rock Gardens [1881-1886]
McLEAN, Archibald John FRIBA
1885-1954
Architect and surveyor.
      Born in Brighton, son of a Scottish-born draper and clothier at 92 Gloucester Road (1885). ARIBA 1909, FRIBA 1925. Lived at Hassocks (1938-1954) and died there.
WORK
• No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
52 Ditchling Rise [childhood home 1891-1893]
17 Lancaster Road [childhood home 1895-1906]
3 Palace Place
MANWARING, George
1797-1849
MANWARING, George
1828-
MANWARING, George Frank
1856-1936
MANWARING, Harry
1859-1936
Family of builders.
George Manwaring Sr. Builder.
      Born in Staplehurst, Kent, son of an agricultural labourer. He employed four men (1851).
George Manwaring Jr. Builder.
      Born in Benenden, Kent, son of George Manwaring Sr, for whom he worked. He employed 15 men (1881). He was described as a retired surveyor in 1891.
George Frank Manwaring. Builder and surveyor.
      Born in Brighton, he was partner with his father, George Manwaring Jr, as Manwaring & Son by the mid 1880s. He was the secretary of the Brighton and Shoreham Permanent Building Society in 1901-1912, when he lived at Newick, where he died, leaving £23,409 8s 7d.
Harry Manwaring. Surveyor and builder.
      Born in Brighton, second son of George Manwaring Jr. He was the secretary of the Hove, Cliftonville and Preston Permanent Benefit Building Society by 1895, but was still described as a builder in 1901. He left £21,496 9s 9d.
WORK
2 Prestonville Road (studio only, 1899)

PERSONAL
13-14 Western Street [1851-1910] This was also the address of the Brighton & Shoreham Permanent Building Society
1 Everton Place [1910] adjacent to 14 Western Street
3 Albany Villas [1881-1891]
PERSONAL (Harry)
6 Albany Villas [residence 1891-1911]
MARCHANT, John
Land surveyor. WORK
• No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
51 North Street [1839-1843]
MASON, —
Architect and surveyor. WORK
• No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
8 Waterloo Place [1824]
MASSEY, Percy George
1890-1961
Architect.
      Born in Manchester. LRIBA 1931.
WORK
No work identified so far

PERSONAL
145 Ditchling Road[residence 1928-1936]
Greenways, 3 Surrenden Close [residence 1937-1961]
MATCHAM, Frank
1854-1920
Architect.
      Foremost theatre architect of the late Victorian and Edwardian period, credited with designing or remodelling up to 120 theatres.
Grand Theatre, North Road (1894)
Hippodrome, Middle Street (remodelled 1901, 1902)
Alhambra Opera House and Music Hall, King's Road (1897; later Palladium Cinema)
MAY, Francis John Charles
1839-1906
Surveyor.
      Born at the Star Inn, Coxheath, Kent, son of a butcher-turned-farmer. He was borough surveyor of Maidstone from 1882 until he moved to Brighton as borough engineer and surveyor from 1889 until his death, when his residence was in Hampstead, Middlesex. He left £3,325 14s 8d. He was president of the Instiution of Municipal Engineers in 1896/97.
COMMEMORATION
May Road

WORK
Park Street Gate, Park Street (1890)
Bevendean Hospital, Bevendean Road
White Street
Brighton Corporation tramway network (1899)

PERSONAL
25 Compton Avenue [residence 1891-1901]
MAYNARD, George
1804-1893
MAYNARD, Edward
1827-1897
George Maynard Builder, parish surveyor/assessor.
      Born in Eastbourne, he was surveyor to the Brighton Guardians, with responsibility for the workhouse. He retired to Burgess Hill, becoming one of the founder arbitrators of the Burgess Hill and Hurstpierpoint Building Society (later the Mid-Sussex Permanent Building Society), founded in 1881. He was described as a 'gentleman' in the Probate Calendar and left over £5,000.
Edward Maynard Architect and surveyor.
      Son of George Maynard. Left Brighton for Richmond, Surrey by 1861 as a proprietor of houses.
WORK (George)
Brighton Workhouse (Arundel Building, Brighton General Hospital), Elm Grove (1865-67)
Warren Farm Industrial Schools, Warren Road (1859)
WORK (Edward)
• No work identified so far.

PERSONAL (George)
52B Preston Street [1839-1851]
12 London Road [lodging 1861]
33 London Road [residence 1871]
14 Waterloo Place [residence 1881]
PERSONAL (Edward)
52 Preston Street [1848]
17 Montpelier Road [1851]
1½ Ship Street [1854]
22½ Ship Street [1856]
MEASURES, Harry Bell
1862-1940
Architect.
      Articled to Arthur Loader 1877-1879, he ewas his assistant 1877-82. He won the Ashbury Silver Medal for Architectural Design at Brighton School of Science and Art 1879, and was Honours Medallist in Building Construction 1880. He had his own practice in Kensington, London from 1883. He was in-house architect for William Willett 1884-1892, notably on the West Brighton estate. He designed a number of London Underground Central Line stations around 1900 (there is a plaque at Lancaster Gate tube station). He later became the War Office's Director of Barrack Construction.
WORK
13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 Eaton Gardens (1888)
69, 71, 73, 75, 79 The Drive (1887)
MELHUISH, Reginald
Architect. WORK
Church of the Holy Nativity, Norwich Drive (1963)
MELLOR, M Auctioneers and valuers, house and estate agents.
      Mellor & Mellor.
PREMISES
110 St James's Street
2 St George's Road [remodelled for Sussex Dairy Co, 1908]
MENDELSSOHN, H E
Architect.
      Not to be confused with Erich Mendelssohn.
WORK
National House, 20-22 West Street (1938)
MEW, Henry
1797-
Builder and surveyor.
      Actively in business by 1829, possibly until c1860. In April 1829 he formed a partnership with Thomas Ball Stroud as Stroud & Mew, which was dissolved in July 1830, leaving Mew to carry on the business alone. Admitted to the Royal York masonic lodge in Brighton in April 1830.
WORK
All Souls Church, Eastern Road (1834, demolished 1968)
The Old Vicarage, Temple Gardens (1834)
Wykeham Terrace (1827-1830) possible attribution
See also Stroud & Mew.

PERSONAL
35 Mighell Street [1829-1832]
MICKLETHWAITE, John Thomas
1843-1906
John Thomas MicklethwaiteArchitect.
      Pupil of George Gilbert Scott. In practice from 1869. In partnership 1876-1892 with George Somers Clarke, whom he met when both were pupils/assistants to Scott. His book Modern Parish Churches (1874) influenced the development of late Victorian gothic ecclesiastical architecture. He was one of the founders of the Art Workers Guild, of which he was master in 1893, and Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey from 1898 until his death.
WORK
St Nicholas of Myra, Church Street (restoration 1900)
WITH SOMERS CLARKE
Holy Trinity Chapel, Ship Street (remodelling, 1885-87)
Victoria (West Brighton) Branch, Hove & Preston Dispensary, Sackville Road (1887)
St Patrick's Church, Cambridge Road (restoration, 1888)
St Peter's Church, York Place (extension, 1889)
St Peter's Church, Holmes Avenue (restoration, 1891)
MIDDLETON, A L
Builder.
      Originally from Rothbury, Northumberland. Formed partnership with Oscar Deutsch and F Stanley Bates to build a cinema in Franklin Road, Portslade. When the others withdrew from ownership after the opening, he continued alone and the cinema opened as the Rothbury.
WORK
Rothbury Cinema, Franklin Road (1933-1934) now offices
Jesmond Road
Mornington Crescent
Rothbury Road
MILEHAM, Harry Robert FRSA
1873-1957
Harry MilehamArtist.
      Born in Hackney, London. Studied painting at Lambeth School of Art and the RA Schools. Member of the Art Workers Guild. His paintings of the Stations of the Cross in St Mary's were moved there from the former Church of St Thomas the Apostle when the latter closed. From 1908 he also designed stained glass, mainly for Cox & Barnard. Brighton Museums and Arts Galleries has some of his work, including a self-portrait. He died in Hove.
Image: In the Mirror, 1946 (Brighton & Hove Museums and Art Galleries)
WORK
St Mary's, St James's Street [painted Stations of the Cross]
Chapel Royal, North Street [painted reredos, glass]
Church of St Thomas, Davigdor Road [glass]
Church of the Good Shepherd, Dyke Road [painted reredos]
Church of St Anne, Burlington Street [painted reredos]
St Stephen's Church, Church Road [glass]

PERSONAL
42 Osmond Road [residence 1917-1929]
Burlingham, 35 Mallory Road [residence, 1929-1957]
MILLS, James
1770-1846
MILLS, James Henry
1805-1873
James Mills. Bricklayer and property developer/owner.
      Born at Kirdford, near Billingshurst. He is buried at St Andrew's Church.
James Henry Mills. Auctioneer and estate agent.
      His son, a proprietor of houses, who took over the family business c1832. He too is buried at St Andrew's Church.
WORK (James)
Mills Terrace (1822)

COMMEMORATION
Mills Terrace
PERSONAL (James)
12 High Street [residence, office 1822]
Blenheim Place [residence 1841]
3 Mills Terrace [residence -1846 deathplace]
PERSONAL (James Henry)
7 Mills Terrace [residence 1851]
23 John Street [residence 1871]
18 Victoria Road [residence 1872]
98 Park Road West (Queen's Park Road) [residence 1873, deathplace]
MILNE, William Oswald
1847-1927
Architect.
      Son of a Norfolk vicar. Pupil of Sir A W Blomfield.
WORK
Church of St Augustine, Stanford Avenue (restoration 1913-1914)
MITCHELL, William George
1925-2020
William MitchellSculptor.
      Created the so-called 'Spirit of Brighton' sand-blasted concrete work that stood in the earlier version of Churchill Square, later demolished and said to have been used as hardcore in the reconstruction. His other commissions include work on Liverpool's Catholic cathedral.
WORK
Spirit of Brighton sculpture, Churchill Square
MOCATTA, David FRIBA
1806-1882
Architect.
      Son of Moses Mocatta, on whose death he inherited a substantial fortune, followed by one from his brother, that enabled him to retire early from architecture. He studied under Sir John Soane. He studied in Italy before returning to England and establishing his own practice, employed frequently by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, for which he designed the Brighton terminus and the Ouse valley viaduct. He was elected one of the earliest fellows of the RIBA in 1837 and was later vice-president. Among other offices he was a senior trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum. He died in South Kensington.
COMMEMORATION
Mocatta House, Trafalgar Place

WORK
Synagogue, Devonshire Place (enlarged 1837; only the facade remains)
Brighton Railway Station, Junction Road (1840)
MOORE, C Rupert
1904-1982
Glass designer, painter.
      Trained at the Royal College of Art, noted for painting of aircraft.
WORK
• St Andrew's Church, Church Road [glass]
Church of St Anne, Burlington Street [glass]
MOORE, Richard St George
1858-1926
Engineer, architect.
      Trained at Laird Bros, Birkenhead. As well as designing the Palace Pier, he designed piers at Skegness, Tenby and St Leonards.
WORK
Brighton Marine Palace and Pier, Madeira Drive
MOORE, Temple Lushington
1856-1920
Designer.
      Born in Ireland, pupil of G G Scott Jr. Specialist in stained glass and church fittings.
WORK
St Michael & All Angels, Victoria Road [altar]
MORGAN, John
Architect and surveyor. WORK
• No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
5 Old Steine [1877-1878]
Morris & Co
Design and manufacturing company.
      Founded by William Morris, Ford Madox Brown and others.
Church of the Anunciation of Our Lady, Washington Street [stained glass]
St Michael & All Angels, Victoria Road [stained glass]
Murrell & Pigott
Architectural firm.
      Partnership of H F Murrell and R M Pigott, noted for their apartment blocks, especially in fashionable areas of London.
WORK
4 Grand Avenue (1935-36)
     

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