Robert Evans (Jun)

Robert Evans FRIBA (25 February 1863 – 16 August 1927) was an English architect based in Nottingham.[1]

Cross Keys, 1899
Pegger's Inn, 1905-06
Nurses’ Home, General Hospital, Nottingham 1919-23

History

He was born on 25 February 1863, in Nottingham, the son of Robert Evans JP and Sarah Ann Mulcock.

He was educated at Rugby School and then articled to the firm of Evans and Jolley,[2] in which his father was a partner. In 1894, when William Jolley left the partnership, father and son set up in partnership as Evans and Son. After the death of his father he was in a partnership with John Thomas Clark and John Woollatt as Evans, Clark and Woollatt.

He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1905

Robert Evans married Constance Katherine Holland, daughter of Charles Ashby Holland on 19 April 1893 at Hartshill, Staffordshire. They lived in Ravine House, Lenton Road, The Park, Nottingham and had three children:

  • Gwendolin Mary Evans (b. 1894)
  • Edith Cecily Evans (b. 1896)
  • Robert Holland Evans (b. 1904)

He died on 16 August 1927 and left an estate of £18,425 0s. 10d.(equivalent to £1,170,000 in 2021).[3]

Works

References
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  1. Brodie, Antonia (20 December 2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: Vol 1 (A-K). Royal Institute of British Architects. p. 620. ISBN 0826455131.
  2. Briscoe, J. Potter (1901). Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Nottingham.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  4. Harwood, Elain (2008). Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300126662.
  5. "Memorial to the late Robert Evans". Nottingham Journal. England. 19 November 1927. Retrieved 17 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "Nottingham Architect's Death". Nottingham Evening Post. England. 16 August 1927. Retrieved 17 April 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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