Henry Marley Burton
{{short description|British architect}}
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Captain Henry Marley Burton {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRIBA}} (1821–1880) was a British architect, who was trained by Decimus Burton and trained Edward John May FRIBA.
Family
He was the eldest, and illegitimate, son of the gunpowder-manufacturer William Ford Burton (1784 – 1856): who was the eldest son of the pre-eminent London property developer James Burton.{{cite ODNB|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/50182?rskey=dTXFr9&result=1|title=James Burton [Haliburton] |date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/50182 }}{{cite book|last1=Arnold|first1=Dana|title=Reading Architectural History|date=2002|publisher=Routledge|page=67 in Biographical Dictionary}}{{Cite book|title=Burton, Decimus, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}} Henry Marley Burton had one brother who was William Warwick Burton (d. 21 October 1861),{{London Gazette|issue=22910|page=5337|date=11 November 1864}}{{London Gazette|issue=22908|page=5231|date=4 November 1864}} who resided at Lincoln's Inn Fields where he was articled as a solicitor to his uncle Septimus Burton (1794 – 1842). William Warwick Burton had three children: William Edgar Burton, Edmund Burton, and Jessy Burton:{{cite web|title=Cause number: 1857 B152: In the Matter of William Edgar Burton, Edmund Burton, and Jessy Burton|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7954454}} each of whom were left property by the will of their uncle Decimus Burton who did not ever marry nor have issue.
Henry Marley Burton was baptized as Henry Marley on 12 December 1821: when he was claimed to be the son of William Marley by Sally Marley, who were neighbours of the Burtons.{{cite web|url=https://www.leighhistorical.org.uk/around-the-parish/powder-mills/people-of-powder-mills/william-ford-burton/|title=William Ford Burton, Leigh & District Historical Society|work=Leigh & District Historical Society |date=2017}}
Architect
Henry Marley Burton was trained in the office of his uncle Decimus Burton, whose practice he inherited when Decimus retired, in 1869, after they had trained the architect Edward John May FRIBA.{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Guy |title=Augustus Pugin Versus Decimus Burton: A Victorian Architectural Duel|year=1990|publisher=Cassell Publishers Ltd.|location=London|isbn=0-304-31561-3|page=129}} In 1866, Henry Marley was commissioned by John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton to design a mansion at Coneyborough, after Decimus had designed Bineham in Chailey for Dodson's brother-in-law John George Blencowe.National Archives: East Sussex. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/71da25ee-c305-4003-b735-d7d43f22c1e0 ARCHIVE OF LORD MONK BRETTON OF CONYBORO IN BARCOMBE]. Accessed: 18 June 2016. He supervised the construction of additions to the Oriental Club, which were designed by Decimus Burton in 1853, when it eventually commenced in 1871.{{cite book|title=The Oriental Club and Hanover Square|last=Baillie FRGS|first=Alexander|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co.|year=1901|page=167}}
Henry Marley's residence was 14 Spring Gardens, St James's.{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects, Henry Marley Burton|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202024|access-date=20 June 2016}} He was also a Captain in the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Corps.{{Edinburgh Gazette|issue=7736|page=427|city=Edinburgh|date=12 April 1867}} Henry Marley Burton died in 1880.{{cite book|title=Dictionary of British Architects, 1834-1914, Vol.2|last=Bridie|first=Antonia|publisher=British Architectural Library, RIBA|page=699|year=2001}} Henry Marley's son Edgar Burton also became an architect.{{cite web|title=Fountain Design of Edgar Burton to commemorate James Burton|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/5a137705-924f-45b7-9208-fedaf122ace3|accessdate=20 February 2016}} Edgar Burton's daughter, Adelaide Veronica Elizabeth Burton, was abortively married, at St. George's, Hanover Square, to Leopold Albu, of 4 Hamilton Place, Mayfair, who was the brother of Sir George Albu, between 19 August 1901 and 1915.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 66
Further reading
- {{cite web|title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects, Henry Marley Burton|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=202024}}