Robert Abraham (1774-1850)

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Robert Abraham was a building surveyor and later architect in London, UK. He was the son of a builder and was educated as a surveyor as a pupil of James Bowen. He turned to architecture after 1818, and was chiefly employed by the leading Roman Catholic families in England, including the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Shrewsbury. He was respected by his patrons principally for his reliability, but he was competent in the various styles fashionable at the period. He was married to Eliza Brown (died 1818), an accomplished flower-painter, and their son H.R. Abraham succeeded to his practice when he died on 11 December 1850. His eldest daughter married Richard Bethell, Lord Westbury, who served as Lord Chancellor in 1861-65.

[edit] List of works

WEALDSTONE (MIDDX): KENTON LANE FARM, new buildings for William Loudon, c.1808; demolished

PINNER (MIDDX): WOODHALL FARM, remodelling for William Loudon, c.1808-09

ARUNDEL CASTLE (SUSSEX): completed rebuilding of east wing (begun by James Teasdale) for 11th Duke of Norfolk, c.1810-15

RISE HALL (YORKS): attributed, alterations, 1815-20

WESTMINSTER (MIDDX): COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, REGENT STREET, 1819; demolished 1924

WESTMINSTER (MIDDX): 176-186 REGENT STREET, for J. Carbonell, wine merchant, 1820; demolished

WESTMINSTER (MIDDX): NORFOLK HOUSE, ST. JAMES' SQUARE, alterations for 12th Duke of Norfolk, 1819-20; demolished 1938

WESTMINSTER (MIDDX): CRAVEN CHAPEL, FOUBERT'S PLACE, 1821-22

MILDENHALL (WILTS): SCHOOL, 1823-24

FORNHAM HALL (SUFFOLK): alterations for 12th Duke of Norfolk, c.1824; demolished c.1951

ALTON TOWERS (STAFFS): garden buildings for 15th Earl of Shrewsbury, c.1825-27

HAYLING ISLAND (HANTS): building development for William Padwick, after 1825

WESTMINSTER (MIDDX): WESTERN SYNAGOGUE, ST. ALBAN'S PLACE, 1827-28

TOOTING (SURREY): NATIONAL SCHOOLS, 1829-30

WORKSOP MANOR (NOTTS): works and gardener's cottage for the Earl of Surrey (later 13th Duke of Norfolk), c.1830

WESTMINSTER (MIDDX): BRIDEWELL, TOTHILL FIELDS, 1830-34; demolished 1885

HULL (YORKS): SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, KINGSTON SQ., 1833

HARLOW (ESSEX): FAWBERT & BARNARD SCHOOL, 1836

WESTMINSTER (MIDDX): OXFORD STREET, houses on the Berners estate, 1836

THAME PARK (OXON): restoration of medieval chapel for Baroness Wenman, 1836

ARUNDEL (SUSSEX): TOWN HALL, for 12th Duke of Norfolk, 1836

ARUNDEL (SUSSEX): CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, TARRANT ST., 1836-38

LONDON: COLLEGE OF ARMS, QUEEN VICTORIA ST., interior of the Record Room, 1842-44

CHELTENHAM (GLOS): UNITARIAN CHURCH, BAYSHILL ROAD, 1844


[edit] References

Sir H. Colvin, A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1995, pp.47-48

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