The Builder

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The Builder was a British journal started in 1843.

Its first two editors, Joseph Hansom and Alfred Bartholomew (1801-45), did not last long in the job. But the architect George Godwin (1813-1888) was editor from 1844 to 1883, and turned The Builder "into the most important and successful professional paper of its kind with a readership well beyond the architectural and building world".^[1] Godwin apparently wrote most of the content himself, relying on a staff of just five people. His successor, Henry Heathcote Statham (1839-1924), edited the journal from 1883 to 1908.^[2]

Contributors to The Builder over the years have included architects such as Robert Dennis Chantrell, Henry Clutton (1819-93), Josiah Conder, James Fergusson, Richard Curtis Green (1875-1960), John Woody Papworth (1820-70), Howard Morley Robertson (1888-1963) and William White ^[3]They have also included the novelist Hall Caine, the engineer and antiquary G. T. Clark, and the short-lived journalist Charles Chaloner Ogle. Illustrators have included Arthur Beresford Pite and Worthington George Smith (1835-1917).^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ G. B. Smith, ‘Godwin, George (1813–1888)’, rev. Ruth Richardson and Robert Thorne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 Jan 2008
2. ^ Alan Powers, ‘Statham, Henry Heathcote (1839–1924)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 5 Jan 2008
3. ^ ODNB
4. ^ ODNB

[edit] External links

• Scans of the first ten volumes (1843-52) at the Bodleian Internet Library of Early Journals