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From: "Hugh Smith" <>
Subject: Re: Frank WHITMORE, Essex County Architect, early 1900s
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:19:04 +0100
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Subject: Frank WHITMORE, Essex County Architect, early 1900s


> Dear Listers,
>
> I wonder if anyone has any information on Frank WHITMORE, one-time County
> Architect of Essex, who designed The Severalls Hospital at Colchester in
the
> early 1900s? (There's an interesting article in today's Times about the
future of
> that place). I am told by the Royal Institute of British Architects that
Mr
> WHITMORE died in 1920 (no more precise date than that), but I would very
much
> like to get my hands on a newspaper obituary or, indeed, any other
information.
> He was born about 1843 at Wickham Market, Suffolk, married (in 1869) one
of my
> wife's numerous DENNY cousins, and there were at least eight little
> WHITMOREs, all my wife's cousins.
>
> Yours, etc.
>
> Geoffrey Woollard in Cambridgeshire.
>
> ______________________________

Geoffrey,
There is a brief entry for your man in "Essex Whoandwhere 1909" as follows:
"Whitmore, Frank.
County Architect, Essex County Council; Alderman Chelmsford; Mayor of
Chelmsford, 1892-3; formerly Secretary Essex Agricultural Society. Address:
73 Duke Street, Chelmsford."

With that information it should be easy enough to trace his Local Government
history in the Kelly's Directories of Essex. I have them for the relevant
period, so contact me off-list if you would like me to do this for you.
Good luck with your research,
Hugh Smith

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