Name Godfrey Pinkerton Role Architect | Died 1937 | |
Godfrey Pinkerton (1858–1937) was a London-based British architect.
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Early life
Godfrey Pinkerton was born at Godstone, Surrey, England. The third child of George Pinkerton (1823, Russia [British Subject] – 1899 Kingston, Surrey) and Mary, née Easum (1823, Stepney – 1868, St. Pancras). His siblings were Eustace (born 1852, Stoke Newington), a member of the London Stock Exchange, Algernon Robert (born 1853, Stoke Newington - d.1937 Rokeby, Tasmania, Australia), the poet and translator Percy E. Pinkerton (1855, Stoke Newington, Middlesex – 1946, Porthleven, Cornwall) and Mary (born 1860, Godstone, Surrey) who married the solicitor Gilbert Mainwaring Robinson. His grandfather was Reverend Dr Robert Pinkerton D.D., principal agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS). He died in Kensington, London.
Career
He was a Fellow of the Royal Institution of British Architects (FRIBA) and operated from offices at 2 Gray's Inn Sq, London, WC1.
He designed the, now Grade II listed, St Mary's Church, Summerstown, London, SW17. and the National Westminster Bank building at 155-158 North Street, Brighton, also Grade II listed
Personal life
He died at Kensington in 1937, and it appears that he never married.