Sir Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett, KBE, CBE, was a Northern Irish solicitor, journalist, author and founding member, and first chairman, of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.
17 Facts About Charles Brett
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Charles Brett was known to many simply as Charlie Brett.
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Charles Brett was a partner in this firm from 1954 until 1994.
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Charles Brett was educated at Aysgarth School, Rugby School and New College, Oxford, where he was President of the Poetry Society and was a friend of Dylan Thomas.
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In 1956, The 8th Earl of Antrim invited Charles Brett to join the Northern Ireland Committee of the National Trust.
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On finding there were no books written to prepare himself for this, Charles Brett resolved to write the necessary volumes.
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Charles Brett served as chairman for ten years and then as President from 1979 until his death.
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Charles Brett sat on the board of the Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin.
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Charles Brett served as Chairman for five years from 1979, during which time 50,000 dwellings were built.
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Charles Brett was asked to compile a list of historic buildings in Jersey in 1975.
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In 1986, Charles Brett became the first chairman of the International Fund for Ireland, established to encourage investment in Ireland.
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Charles Brett was involved in Northern Irish politics, being chairman of the Northern Ireland Labour Party for a time.
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Charles Brett, included books on the local architecture of the buildings of County Armagh, County Antrim and North County Down.
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In 1974, the National Trust of Guernsey invited Charles Brett to carry out a similar architectural survey of St Peter Port in Guernsey to mark European Architectural Heritage Year in 1975, resulting in the publication of Buildings in the Town and Parish of St Peter Port.
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Charles Brett wrote one satirical volume under the pen name "Albert Rechts", which was an anagram of his name.
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Charles Brett wrote a volume titled Long Shadows Cast Before, incorporating family history, political commentary and autobiography.
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Charles Brett was married and had three sons, and seven grandchildren.