1. Arthur Blomfield became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 and vice-president of the RIBA in 1886.
10 Facts About Arthur Blomfield
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Arthur Blomfield was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Architecture.
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Arthur Blomfield was the ninth son of Charles James Blomfield, Anglican Bishop of London, who began a programme of new church construction in the capital.
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Arthur Blomfield was then articled as an architect to Philip Charles Hardwick, and subsequently obtained a large practice on his own account.
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Arthur Blomfield was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1891.
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Arthur Blomfield's first wife was Caroline Harriet Smith and his second wife, Lady Blomfield, was an author and humanitarian.
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Two of his daughters, Mary Esther and Ellinor Arthur Blomfield, were supporters of the suffragette movement and famously made a representation to the King.
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Arthur Blomfield died at the Royal Society in London on 30 October 1899 aged 70 and was buried on 3 November in Broadway, Worcestershire, where he lived at Springfield House.
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Arthur Blomfield designed St Peter's in Eastgate in 1870 as a replacement for a medieval church.
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In 1882 Arthur Blomfield designed the Royal College of Music in London.