Sir Mervyn E Macartney FSA FRIBA was a British architect and Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral between 1906 and 1931.
18 Facts About Mervyn Macartney
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Mervyn Macartney was born in London on 16 September 1853, the youngest of the four sons of Elizabeth and Maxwell Mervyn Macartney, a doctor.
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Mervyn Macartney was privately educated until 1873 when he completed his education at Lincoln College, Oxford, before working under the tutorial of Richard Norman Shaw.
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Examples of buildings and estates that Mervyn Macartney worked on include:.
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Mervyn Macartney was one of the original editorial board members of The Architectural Review, founded in 1896, along with Sir Reginald Blomfield, Ernest Newton and Henry Wilson.
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MacColl, who had criticised the 1903 Art and Crafts Exhibition Society show as being amateurish, with Mervyn Macartney reposit being that MacColl wasn't an architect.
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MacColl was sacked after another financial crisis at the journal, and Mervyn Macartney replaced him as the editor for the review serving from 1905 until 1921.
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In 1913, Mervyn Macartney relaunched the Review, with pages of whole pictures in a new lavish style, while new topics including The Architecture of the Liner were added.
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Mervyn Macartney created a special issue to mark the end of World War I to celebrate the 'Great Peace' in which ideas and plans for the centre of the proposed League of Nations were shown.
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In February 1906, Mervyn Macartney was appointed the Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral and remained in the role until his resignation in November 1930.
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Mervyn Macartney was made the consulting architect for Durham Cathedral in 1911, replacing C Hodgson Fowler who had died the previous year.
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Mervyn Macartney completed extensive repairs and restoration to St Paul's during his time at the Cathedral, especially work on the piers, which Mervyn Macartney said had been built of indifferent quality by various contractors.
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Mervyn Macartney designed the St Paul's Choristers war memorial, a timber free standing screen built by Henry Poole, which is located at the north wall of the quire aisle.
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Mervyn Macartney was a member of the St George's Art Society, which along with fellow society, the Fifteen, promoted the unity of the arts.
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Mervyn Macartney's co-founders were Sidney Barnsley, Reginald Blomfield, William Lethaby, Ernest Gimson, Stephen Webb and Colonel Harold Esdaile Malet.
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Mervyn Macartney was the company chairman and the business operated from Jubilee Place, Chelsea before moving to Brownlow Mews in Guilford Street.
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Mervyn Macartney was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1889, before resigning in 1891, along with John Belcher and Ernest Newton over a dispute before being reinstated in 1906.
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Mervyn Macartney was made an Honorary Corresponding Member of the American Institute of Architects and was elected the Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1899.