Harold Brakspear

Sir Harold Brakspear KCVO (10 March 1870 – 20 November 1934[1]) was an English restoration architect and archaeologist.[2]

Brakspear was consulting architect to the Dean and Canons of Windsor; pictured is Windsor Castle's Round Tower

He restored a number of ancient and notable buildings, including[2] Bath Abbey, Windsor Castle, Brownston House in Devizes and St Cyriac's Church in Lacock.[3] He lived in Corsham, Wiltshire, close to his projects at Lacock Abbey,[4] Hazelbury Manor and Great Chalfield Manor.[2]

Brakspear was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1931 New Year Honours.[5]

In 1908 he married Lilian Somers of Halesowen, Worcestershire; they had a son and a daughter, Oswald and Mary.[1] Oswald was an architect who designed churches and parsonage houses.[6]

References
  1. "Sir Harold Brakspear dies at Bath". Bath Chronicle (9046): 26. 24 November 1934. ISSN 1356-0069. Wikidata Q106495384.
  2. "Brakspear, Harold". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Clark-Maxwell, W. G. (1934). "The Late Sir Harold Brakspear, K.C.V.O". Archaeological Journal. 91 (1): 405–405. doi:10.1080/00665983.1934.10853635. ISSN 0066-5983.
  4. Cranage, David Herbert Somerset (1934). The Home of the Monk. CUP Archive. pp. 116–.
  5. "No. 33675". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1930. p. 7.
  6. "Papers of Sir Harold and Oswald Brakspear". Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. Retrieved 13 February 2022 – via National Archives.


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