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John Seely, 2nd Baron Mottistone

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22: 119: 115:. According to Paget, "it was just the marriage of two minds... we became virtually one person". They were inseparable in business and life, and referred to each other as "the partner". They lived and worked at 41 Cloth Fair, London, where the firm remained until 1986. 218:
that is a memorial to him. The inscription reads "John Mottistone. This is a sign of love and sadness. P.E.P. 1966 A.C.D." P.E.P stands for Paul Edward Paget, Lord Mottistone's partner. A.C.D. is
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On either side a sea horse (hippocampus) Azure gorged with a mural crown and charged on the shoulder with a maple leaf Or.
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In front of three ears of wheat banded Or the trunk of a tree fesswise eradicated and sprouting to the dexter Proper.
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Azure three ears of wheat banded Or between two martlets in pale and as many chaplets of roses in fess Argent.
152:. He succeeded to the Mottistone barony in 1947. After WWII Seely & Paget designed new churches including 105: 188: 521: 516: 180: 141: 59: 55: 413: 418: 396: 219: 211: 118: 90: 78: 51: 488: 200: 130: 112: 39: 433: 196: 175:, at the eastern end of the crypt. He was also appointed architect to St George's chapel, 50:
restoration of a number of bomb-damaged buildings, such as houses in the Little Cloister (
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He died without issue on 18 January 1963 and was accordingly succeeded by his brother,
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Harris, Brian L. (1988), Harris's Guide to Churches and Cathedrals, Ebury Press,
38:(1 May 1899 – 18 January 1963) was an architect whose work in the partnership of 97: 153: 434:"John Seely, 2nd Baron Mottistone - Person - National Portrait Gallery" 222:, the Dean of Westminster at the time of Lord Mottistone's death. 117: 81:, Winchester, an independent preparatory school, and then went to 20: 89:
where he read Architecture and met his future business partner,
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holds six portraits of him in its collection, by photographers
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Henry John Alexander Seely was born on 1 May 1899, the son of
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The partnership's works included the remodelling of
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Index


OBE
Seely & Paget
Eltham Palace
World War II
Westminster Abbey
London Charterhouse
St John Clerkenwell
John Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
West Downs School
Harrow School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Paul Edward Paget
World War I
Royal Hampshire Regiment
Battle of Arras
Seely & Paget

Eltham Palace
Mottistone Manor
Eltham Palace
Auxiliary Air Force
Ministry of Works
World War II
St Andrew and St George Stevenage
Lambeth Palace
Eton College
Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral
Order of the British Empire
Windsor Castle

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