| 词条 | Harry Bulkeley Creswell |
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| name = Harry Bulkeley Creswell | image = | alt = | caption = | other_names = Karshish | occupation = British architect and author | birth_date = {{start-date|18 May 1869}} | death_date = {{Death-date and age|4 July 1960|18 May 1869|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_place = }}Harry Bulkeley Creswell FRIBA (1869–1960), was a British architect and author.[1] BiographyBorn on 18 May 1869, Harry Creswell was educated at Bedford School and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was articled to Sir Aston Webb RA in 1890, before establishing his own architectural practice in 1899. He was an Inspecting Engineer for the Crown Agents to the Colonies and designed the turbine factory in Queensferry, Flintshire, built between 1901 and 1906 and described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as a rare English precursor of Functionalism,[2] Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial (in association with Egerton Swartwout), and the New Parthenon Room at the British Museum.[3] Creswell was the author of a number of novels, including Thomas (1918), Thomas Settles Down (1919), The Honeywood File (1929) The Honeywood Settlement (1930), Jago versus Swillerton and Toomer (1931), Diary from a Dustbin (1935), Grig (1942), and Grig in Retirement (1943). He wrote two children's books: Marytary (1928) and Johnny and Marytary (1936). He was also a contributor to the Architectural Review, the Architects' Journal, Black and White and Punch, writing under the pseudonym Karshish.[4] Harry Creswell died on 4 July 1960. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U236170/CRESWELL_Harry_Bulkeley?index=1&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0|title=Who's Who|publisher=ukwhoswho.com|accessdate=2014-06-15}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cresswell, Harry Bulkeley}}2. ^The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire), 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-300-09627-9}} 3. ^Alastair Service, Edwardian Architecture, A Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890–1914, London, Thames & Hudson, 1977, {{ISBN|978-0-500-18158-4}} 4. ^James Stevens Curl, A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-198-60678-9}} 7 : Alumni of Trinity College Dublin|People educated at Bedford School|1869 births|1960 deaths|20th-century British novelists|20th-century British architects|Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects |
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