Adolphus Croft (1831 - 22 March 1893) was the in-house architect for the furniture manufacturers Gillow & Company, later Waring & Gillow.
Early life
editAdolphus Croft was born in 1831 John Croft and Emma Croft. At the time of the 1861 census, the family were living at 26 Wellington Street, Islington, London. The census of that year records that Adolphus had brothers Arthur (1828) and John (1841) who were artists, and a sister Jessy (1841).[1]
Career
editCroft designed South Park in East Sussex, later known as Wadhurst College, which with its stable block are both grade II listed with Historic England.[2]
He designed Carlyle House, Chelsea Embankment, London which The Building News and Engineering Journal described as "rather too broken up to be deemed a pleasing example of the style it reproduces".[3]
In 1888 he built three mansions at 127 and 128 Piccadilly, London.
He died at South Park on 22 March 1893.[4]
References
edit- ^ 1861 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription. Retrieved 29 May 2016. (subscription required)
- ^ WADHURST COLLEGE, FORMERLY SOUTH PARK. Historic England. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ The Building News and Engineering Journal, Vol. 36 (1879), p. 499.
- ^ "Deaths". Sussex Agricultural Express. No. 5782. 31 March 1893. p. 4. Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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