Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe as British architect (1816–1905).
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe was born at Carlton in Lindrick in 1816. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He trained at Eton College and Trinity College.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, lawyer and politician.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe died in 1905, aged 89. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Eton College and Trinity College
