George Aitchison
British architect
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George Aitchison Jr. RA (London 7 November 1825 – 16 May 1910) was a British architect.
He was the son of George Aitchison (1792–1861) who was educated at Merchant Taylors' School [1] and University College London and articled to architect Henry Hake Seward from 1813 to 1823. [2]
His best-known work is Leighton House , Kensington, for Baron Leighton .
He became an associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1881 and a full member in 1898, and was Professor of Architecture there from 1887 to 1905. He became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1862 [3] and was its President from 1896 to 1899. He won the Royal Gold Medal in 1898.
References
- ↑ London (England). Merchant Taylors' School; Merchant Taylors' School (London, England); Charles John Robinson (1883). A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylor's School: from A. D. 1562 to 1874, comp. from authentic sources and ed. with biographical notices . Printed and published for the editor by Farncombe & co. p. 260.
- ↑ "George Aitchison" . Grace's Guide . Retrieved 30 May 2017 .
- ↑ The Men of the Time reference has "Royal Institute of British Artists", but this seems to be a typo (there is a Royal Society of British Artists )
External links
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Works by or about George Aitchison at Wikisource
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Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Aitchison, George" . Men of the Time (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. p. 23.
- James Stevens Curl (23 February 2006). A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture . OUP Oxford. p. 12. ISBN 0-19-860678-8 .
- "George Aitchison, R.A." RA Collections . Royal Academy of Arts . Retrieved 17 February 2011 .
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