(b Gayton, Northants, May 28, 1883; d Plas Brondanw, Gwynedd, April 8, 1978). English architect . The son of a clergyman and Cambridge don, he was brought up in North Wales and studied at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, proceeding without a degree to spend a short time at the Architectural Association School in London. He was in private practice in London and Wales from 1905 and designed many small, mostly residential buildings before 1914, completing the enlargement of Llangoed Castle, Powys, and embarking on the creation of a formal garden at Plas Brondanw, the 17th-century house he had inherited and restored. In the 1920s, after war service in the Welsh Guards and the Royal Tank Corps, he became a fashionable architect and decorator, adopting a light classical style with an imaginative use of colour. As well as many house designs, his work at this time included Bishop’s Stortford School Memorial Hall (1922), the First Church of Christ Scientist (1927), Belfast, and the Lloyd George Memorial (...