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ARCHITECTS & BUILDERS

Barnsley, John
19th C
Kt; builder of the Hall of Memory and other Birmingham buildings; Methodist local preacher and President of the Methodist Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association in 1899.

Buckland, Herbert Tudor
1887 (c)
Seminal arts and crafts architect (b 1869)

Chatwin, J A
1848 (c)
Architect responsible for many churches and other buildings in Birmingham

Hobbiss, Holland
1896
Architect. He designed the present school buildings and the Union building of Birmingham University.

Smith, Eden
c. 1876
Prolific Toronto architect who is thought to have built around 2,500 residences in the city over his career.  His buildings include three carnegie libraries for the Toronto Public Library and the preparatory school of Upper Canada College.  He was a founding member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and first president of the Architectural Eighteen Club.