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Edward Robert Robson

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During his years with the School Board, Robson designed several hundred schools in London, and after leaving the Board in 1884 he remained as consulting architect to the Education Department.
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as early as 1862; it passed to his son, P.A. Robson and has been lost sight of, according to Judy Rudoe, "Artists' Jewellery. London, Wartski",
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Robson's experience, for which he travelled in the Continent for the most up-to-date school-planning ideas, was encapsulated in his
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School Architecture; Being Practical Remarks on the Planning, Designing, Building and Furnishing of School-Houses
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may have made him an obvious choice in 1888 for remodelling some market buildings with great dispatch for the
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He is also credited with design of some residential houses. For example, Glenwood (99 Mycenae Road in
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in 1886/7 as well as working on new school structures, notably Primrose Hill Infants' School and the
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notes his recreations as "golf, bicycling, billiards". At the time of his death, he was a
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In his later years he worked with his son, Philip Appleby Robson. He was twice offered a
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Jacqueline Banerjee, "Edward Robert Robson, pioneering architect of State Schools"
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in the many-gabled free Anglo-Flemish Renaissance style known at the time as "
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Gavin Stamp, "High Victorian Gothic and the Architecture of Normandy"
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Westcombe Park Conservation Area: Character Appraisal, March 2010
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from 1871 until 1876. The schools themselves were of brick and
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Board Schools, Hanover Street, London, by Edward Robert Robson.
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and in which Stevenson had already shown himself proficient.
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People associated with Queen Mary University of London
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The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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Municipal Dreams in Education, London (13 May 2013).
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Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
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Durham
Justice of the Peace
Newcastle upon Tyne
John Dobson
Italianate
Sir George Gilbert Scott
Durham Cathedral
Formigny
Liverpool
School Board of London
Royal Institute of British Architects
Elementary Education Act 1870
East End

Elizabeth Burgwin

J. J. Stevenson
architectural terracotta
Queen Anne style
Gothic Revival
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
New Gallery
People's Palace, Mile End
Cheltenham Ladies' College

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