Ernest George

Ernest George

.

His London office was known as "The Eton of architects' offices" [A. Stuart Gray, "Edwardian Architecture, A Biographical Dictionary" (1985), ISBN 0 7156 2141 6, p.186.] . His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens. George was the architect of the Golders Green Crematorium.

He designed houses for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington with Harold Peto in the 1870s and a number of country houses with, former pupil Alfred Yeats.

Houses by George & Yeats

* Shockerwick House, Bathford, Somerset "including wings, lodge and 'The Clock House"' (1896)
* Cawston Manor & Water Tower Cawston, Norfolk (1897)
* Eynsham Park, Oxfordshire (1900-04)
* Ruckley Grange, Tong, Shropshire (1904)
* Bushridge Hall, Godalming, Surrey (1906)
* Crathorne Hall, North Yorkshire (1906-09)
* Putteridge Bury, Lilley, Hertfordshire (1911)

Painting

*George painted in England, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Italy. [Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 edition]

*An album with pencil-sketches of townscapes in Ostend is kept in the Kunstmuseum aan Zee in Ostend ('Oostende').

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