Lionel Bailey Budden

Lionel Bailey Budden, architect (1877-1956) was Roscoe Professor in Architecture in the Liverpool School of Architecture from 1933. He retired in 1952.When he contributed the article on Architectural Education to the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1929) he was the Associate Professor. He had entered the School in 1905, graduated BA in 1909 and MA in 1910, taught there from 1911 and became Associate Professor in 1924. He had been University of Liverpool travelling Scholar in Architecture in 1909, and a student at the British School at Athens 1909-1912. He was first an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA), later becoming a Fellow (FRIBA).His architectural work included war memorials in Birkenhead and Liverpool; Liverpool Veterinary Hospital and extensions to Liverpool University Students’ Union.For his Encyclopaedia Britannica article, published shortly before the passing of the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931 see: Architectural education in the United Kingdom (19c-20c). His School, Liverpool, was one of those listed in the Act for the purpose of constituting the statutory Board of Architectural Education.He had married in1921, and had one son and one daughter.