George Latham (architect)

George Latham was baptised on 25 September 1793. His father John worked making saddles.{{citation |url=https://nantwichmuseum.org.uk/george-latham/ |title=George Latham |publisher=Nantwich Museum |accessdate=26 January 2025}}

Latham married Mary Gee, the daughter of the Wesleyan Methodist minister of Nantwich, the Reverend Thomas Gee, on 7 July 1829.{{sfnp|Hall|1972|p=402}} They had five children including at least three sons; the second, Baldwin Latham (1836–1917) became a civil engineer and meteorologist;{{Citation | last = Insley| first = Jane| title = Latham, Baldwin (1836–1917)| work = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2004| url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52328| access-date = 19 July 2013 }} ({{ODNBsub}}) the youngest, Edwin Davenport Latham, also became a civil engineer.Journal of the Society of Engineers, p. 257 (1895) In 1850, Latham was living on Hospital Street in Nantwich.Bagshaw's Directory (1850) He died on 8 August 1871.

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His works include the country houses, Arley Hall and Willington Hall, parish churches in Wistaston and Tilstone Fearnall, Northwich Union Workhouse, and various buildings in Nantwich including the Congregational Chapel, Savings Bank, market hall and town hall (now demolished). Hartwell et al. in the Buildings of England series consider Arley Hall to be his finest work. He designed buildings in a variety of architectural styles, including Neoclassical, Jacobean, and Georgian.{{sfnp|Hartwell|Hyde|Hubbard|Pevsner|2011|p=37}}

Latham was approached by John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache, with the prospect of becoming the architect for Peckforton Castle, but was not appointed to the position and received £2,000 in compensation. The architect ultimately appointed was Anthony Salvin.{{citation | last =Durdey | first =Ronald | year =2007–2008 | title =John Tollemache and his Castle | journal =Cheshire History | volume = 47| pages =81 | issn =0141-8696 }} Latham was also commissioned by Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe, to carry out alterations to Crewe Hall in 1836, but was replaced by Edward Blore.{{sfnp|De Figueiredo|Treuherz|1988|p=66}}

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• {{Citation | last = De Figueiredo | first = Peter | last2 = Treuherz | first2 = Julian | year = 1988 | title = Cheshire Country Houses | publication-place = Chichester | publisher = Phillimore | ISBN = 0-85033-655-4 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi }}
• {{Citation | last = Hall| first = J.| year = 1972| title = A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester| edition = 2nd| publisher = E. J. Morten| isbn = 0-901598-24-0}}
• {{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Clare |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =Yale University Press| year =2011| orig-year=1971| location =New Haven and London| isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }}

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Category:19th-century English architects

Category:People from Nantwich

Category:1871 deaths

Category:Date of birth unknown

Category:Architects from Cheshire