George Esslemont Gordon Leith (1885–1965) was a South African architect.
Career
editHe started his career working for Herbert Baker.[1]
Leith served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery (and was later recovering from a Western Front gas attack).[2]
Leith was assistant architect to the Imperial War Graves Commission in England from 1918 to 1920, before going back to South Africa, where he set up his own practice.[1]
Leith's works include the Calais Southern War Cemetery, France (1918–20), Johannesburg Park Station (1927–32), the Town Hall, Bloemfontein (1920–40), the South African Reserve Bank, Johannesburg (1938),[1] and the Queen Victoria Hospital, Johannesburg (1943).[3]
Personal life
editHe married Ethel Mary Leith, née Cox (1888–1974). Their daughter Sarah Greenaway Leith (1918-2010), was a British rally driver and novelist, and a Second World War codebreaker at Bletchley Park.
References
edit- ^ a b c "George Esslemont Gordon Leith - oi". Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Fox, Paul. "Sarah Greenaway [Sally] Miall [née Leith] (1918–2010)". oxforddnb.com. ODNB. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ "Hospital Hill (Old Suburb between Braamfontein & Hillbrow)". Johannesburg 1912 - Suburb by suburb research. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
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