Sir Ernest George RA (1839 – 1922) was an English architect. His London office was known as "The Eton of architects' offices" . His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens. George was the architect of the Golders Green Crematorium. He designed houses for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington with Harold Peto in the 1870s and a number of country houses with, former pupil Alfred Yeates.

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  • Sir Ernest George RA (1839 – 1922) was an English architect. His London office was known as "The Eton of architects' offices" . His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens. George was the architect of the Golders Green Crematorium. He designed houses for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington with Harold Peto in the 1870s and a number of country houses with, former pupil Alfred Yeates. While in partnership with Peto he designed Stoodleigh Court at Tiverton, in 1881, for Thomas Carew. In 1891, while still with Peto he designed an extension to West Dean House for William James, creating the Oak Room, now Oak Hall in West Dean College. In New Zealand, which he never visited, he designed the Theomin family house Olveston (house) in Dunedin which was built 1904-1907. He was also responsible for the current Southwark Bridge (1921), and the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in London's Postman's Park.
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  • Sir Ernest George RA (1839 – 1922) was an English architect. His London office was known as "The Eton of architects' offices" . His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass and Edwin Lutyens. George was the architect of the Golders Green Crematorium. He designed houses for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington with Harold Peto in the 1870s and a number of country houses with, former pupil Alfred Yeates.
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