Francis rattenbury biography
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RATTENBURY, Francis Mawson, architect, businessman, and municipal councillor; b. 11 Oct.
Francis rattenbury biography
1867 in Leeds, England, son of John Owen Rattenbury, a merchant and later an artist, and Mary Ann Mawson; m. first 18 June 1898 Florence Eleanor Nunn (d. 1929) in Victoria, and they had a son and a daughter; they divorced 28 Jan.
1925; m. secondly 8 April 1925 in Bellingham, Wash., Alma Victoria Clarke, widow of Caledon Robert John Radcliffe Dolling and divorced wife of Thomas Compton Pakenham, and they had a son; d. 28 March 1935 in Bournemouth, England.
Francis Mawson Rattenbury was among the most successful members of the first generation of professionally trained architects who worked in Canada, and, with Samuel Maclure*, a founder of a legitimate, if derivative, west-coast architectural idiom.
More competent than technically innovative or aesthetically creative, he would use his education to good effect in British Columbia.
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