Thomas Pollard Sampson

Sampson was born in Launceston, Tasmania, to Richard Sampson (c.1847–1917) and Caroline Elizabeth Pollard (1849–1945). His maternal grandparents were from Yorkshire, England, and his extended family were members of the Methodist Church. He attended the independent school known as Launceston High School that existed from 1884 until 1912. It was founded by Edward Alleyne Nathan who had been a teacher at Launceston Church Grammar School. The school was at Milton Hall in Frederick Street, Launceston, and eventually merged with Launceston Church Grammar School.[https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/tas/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fARCHIVES_AGENCIES$002f0$002fARCHIVES_AGE_DIX:NG2952/one Launceston High School] Retrieved 19 June 2019. The alumni of both schools held joint reunions as the Old Launcestonians' Association after the schools merger and Sampson attended these reunions in Sydney.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68314079 |title=Old Launcestonians' Association |newspaper=The Advocate |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=25 July 1939 |access-date=19 June 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

On moving to Sydney in 1909, Sampson lived in Manly and for a short period in Kirribilli. He married Clarice Henderson on 17 February 1911 at St Philip's Church, Sydney and after the wedding the young couple lived at the Henderson family home "Youngarra" in Gordon Street, Burwood.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/mlcschoolarchives/22808237841/ MLC Archives] Retrieved 27 December 2021. Sampson and his wife had one daughter, Phyllis (Phyl) Marjorie Sampson, who was born on 8 August 1911 in Sydney. The Sampson family then rented a house at 47 Ashburner Street, Manly, in the 1920s. From the 1930s, until his death, Sampson lived in a flat at Craigievar in Darling Point. He died on 25 Jun 1961 at the Scottish Hospital, Paddington.{{Citation | title=Thomas Pollard Sampson and Family NG2919 [Records] | date=1875 | publisher=LINC Tasmania | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191631072 | access-date=1 March 2019 }}

In February 1932, at Woollahra, his daughter Phyl married Paul Cohen a son of Sir Samuel and Lady Cohen.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230115118 |title=TOPICS FOR WOMEN |newspaper=The Sun |issue=6971 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 May 1932 |access-date=3 March 2019 |page=16|edition=LAST RACE |via=National Library of Australia}} The marriage produced twins, Christopher and Dinah Cohen. In 1941, Paul Cohen changed his Jewish name and those of his family to Cullen. He was fighting the Germans in North Africa, Greece and Crete and knew that, were he captured he would not be treated as a Prisoner of War.[http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cullen-paul-alfred-20603 Paul Alfred Cullen (1909–2007)] Retrieved 3 March 2019. The marriage ended in divorce in 1961. Phyl Cullen died on 22 October 2011 in Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, aged 100 years.

Sampson was articled in architecture to A.E. Luttrell of Cameron Street, LauncestonFreeland, J.M. The Making of a Profession, Angus & Robertson, (Sydney, 1971) pp 210 In 1891 Sampson exhibited an architectural drawing of a design for a villa residence in the Tasmanian Industrial Exhibition. He had been articled for six months at that time and had become an architectural photographer taking many notable images of Launceston buildings. Sampson moved to Sydney to practise as an architect. In 1907 he designed a row of three houses in Manly, New South Wales.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article238037222 |title=BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION. |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |issue=8652 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 February 1907 |access-date=13 June 2019 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1911 Charles A Henderson offered his son-law land on his subdivision at Strathfield. Sampson designed houses and rented them before selling the properties.{{Citation | author1=Federated Builders' Association of Australia | title=HOME BUILDING SECTION MEN MAKE HOUSES BUT WOMEN MAKE HOMES. THE HOME AND HAPPINESS Solving the Universal Problem (12 April 1918) | journal=Building: The Magazine for the Architect, Builder, Property Owner and Merchant | publication-date=1918-04-12 | publisher=Building Publishing Co. | volume=21 | issue=128 | pages=59 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233333161 | access-date=27 December 2021}} In 1919 he partnered with Harold Minton Taylor, a solicitor, and purchased Rosebank House and adjoining land in Darlinghurst.[https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/983689 City of Sydney Rosebank Estate. Subdivision. Harold Minton Taylor & Thomas Pollard Sampson City of Sydney Rosebank Estate. Subdivision. Harold Minton Taylor & Thomas Pollard Sampson] Retrieved 3 January 2022. They demolished the original house and constructed several apartment blocks in the suburb including Richmond Hall and Rosebank Hall in Farrell Avenue and Upton Court in Forbes Street. Sampson also designed the buildings for Henderson's Hats at Surry Hills and Rosebery.[https://meetings.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Data/Planning%20and%20Development%20Committee/201702201403/Agenda/170220_PDC_ITEM03_ATTACHMENTA9.pdf Conservation management strategy (John Oultram Heritage & Design)] Retrieved 27 December 2021. Whilst living with the Henderson family his daughter started school at Meriden where Sampson did a substantial amount of work on the school's Redmyre Road campus in Strathfield.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17208271 |title=ADDITIONS TO SCHOOL. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=30,557 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 December 1935 |access-date=27 December 2021 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} He was also involved in the marketing of a subdivision of land at Neutral Bay. Sampson worked with other architects early in his career including Herbert Dennis,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15430154 |title=GENERAL NOTES. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=23,542 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=24 June 1913 |access-date=3 January 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} Robertson & Marks and Nixon & Adam. After designing the stadium for Hugh D. McIntosh he worked on his home, Belhaven in Bellevue Hill and on investment properties for him.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168754450 |title=UNIQUE STALLS. |newspaper=Truth |issue=1122 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=26 January 1913 |access-date=27 December 2021 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1924 Sampson designed a house at 3 Nicholson Street, Burwood, for Charles David Murray (1872–1936){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17347515 |title=MR. C. D. MURRAY. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=30,678 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 April 1936 |access-date=23 January 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} who had just become managing director of Murray and Company Ltd, Universal Providers.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16139814 |title=TENDERS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=26,914 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 April 1924 |access-date=23 January 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} It was one of three substantial homes, on the northern and high point of the street, that had tennis courts and orchards. The Murray house and its neighbours were all demolished in the 1970s for the creation of St. Paul’s Close, Burwood. The replacement houses are all in Late twentieth century Australian and immigrants’ nostalgic style.{{Citation

| title=A pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture: styles and terms from 1788 to the present / Richard Apperly, Robert Irving, Peter Reynolds; photographs by Solomon Mitchell

| author1=Apperly, Richard

| author2=Reynolds, Peter L

| author3=Irving, Robert, 1926-

| author4=Mitchell, Solomon

| year=1989

| publisher=Angus & Robertson

| isbn=0207162018

| language=English

}}[https://www.realestate.com.au/property/5-st-pauls-cl-burwood-nsw-2134 St Paul’s Close Burwood] Retrieved 23 January 2022. During World War Two Sampson worked for Manpower Directorate (Australia) and did early work at Concord Repatriation General Hospital. After his daughter's marriage into the Cohen family Sampson worked for them designing houses in Woollahra and office buildings in Sydney.{{cite news|date=28 June 1933|title=SHOP FRONTS INSTALLED|volume=XLVI|page=8|newspaper=Construction and Real Estate Journal|issue=1317|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222911642|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=27 December 2021}}

• R.C. Henderson Hat Manufactures, wharehouse and office, 11–13 Randle Street Surry Hills (1912 burnt out and demolished 2023)[https://meetings.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Data/Central%20Sydney%20Planning%20Committee/20170223/Agenda/170223_CSPC_ITEM06_ATTACHMENTA9.pdf 11–13 Randle Street, Surry Hills, Conservation][https://www.afr.com/companies/transport/sydney-cbd-building-engulfed-in-gush-of-fire-20230525-p5dbdx Sydney CBD building engulfed ‘in gush of fire’] Retrieved 25 May 2023.
• Austral Hotel Victoria Street, Darlinghurst (Kings Cross) (1912) alterations and additions demolished in 1936 and replaced by the Piccadilly Hotel[https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/image/9590_62722 Austral Hotel - State Archives] Retrieved 27 December 2021.
• Sydney Stadium Neild Avenue, Rushcutters Bay. (1912, demolished 1970){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234759831 |title=Untitled |newspaper=Construction: Weekly Supplement To Building |volume=11 |issue=233 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 July 1912 |access-date=4 June 2019 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Kama 16 Llandilo Avenue, Strathfield (1913){{cite web|author= |url=http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=2450107 |title=Heritage | NSW Environment & Heritage |website=Heritage.nsw.gov.au |date= |access-date=22 August 2017}}
• House 105 Bower Street Manly (1914) {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15536287 |title=GENERAL NOTES. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=23,944 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 October 1914 |access-date=3 January 2022 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Romahapa 22–24 Martin Road, Centennial Park (1914){{cite web|author= |url=http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=2420245 |title=Heritage | NSW Environment & Heritage |website=Heritage.nsw.gov.au |date= |access-date=22 August 2017}}[https://federation-house.wikispaces.com/Centennial+Park+NSW+Martin+Road Centennial Park – Federation House] Retrieved 22 August 2017.
• Villa Regina Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay (1915 demolished c1976){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109635594 |title=Residence At Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay |newspaper=Construction And Local Government Journal |volume=XVII |issue=424 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 March 1916 |access-date=1 March 2019 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Houses 86, 88 and 90 Beresford Road, Bellevue Hill (1914){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15459315 |title=TENDERS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=23,644 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 October 1913 |access-date=27 December 2021 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• House 11 Kingsland Avenue, Strathfield, New South Wales (1915){{Citation | title=CONTENTS. JUNE. 1916 | journal=The Salon: Being the Journal of the Institute of Architects of New South Wales | date=1916-06-01 | volume=6 | issue=5 | pages=2 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/235248222 | access-date=7 June 2019 }}
• Commonwealth Hotel 461 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills (1919, facade only remains){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108990037 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Construction And Local Government Journal |volume=XXIII |issue=616 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 November 1919 |access-date=13 June 2019 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Upton Court 12 residential flats, 186 Forbes Street, Darlinghurst (1919){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222641137 |title=BUILDING-INDUSTRY & MACHINERY |newspaper=The Sun |issue=2705 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 March 1919 |access-date=3 March 2019 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15880192 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=25,655 |date=27 March 1920 |access-date=3 March 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Concord Golf Club Clubhouse, Concord (1921)[https://web.archive.org/web/20070829040306/http://concordgolfclub.com.au/guests/golf/gfhistory.mhtml Concord Golf Course History] Retrieved 22 August 2017.
• Richmond Hall 11 residential flats, 2-4 Farrell Avenue, Darlinghurst, Darlinghurst (1922)
• Rosebank Hall 26 residential flats, 6-8 Farrell Avenue, Darlinghurst (1922)
• Apartment Block 9 residential flats, 10-12 Farrell Avenue, Darlinghurst (1922)
• Derwent 117 Homebush Road, Strathfield (1924)
• Murray House 3 Nicholson Street, Burwood (1924 demolished 1970s){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16139814 |title=TENDERS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=26,914 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 April 1924 |access-date=23 January 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Grantchester 6 residential flats, 420 Edgecliff Road, Edgecliff (1926)[https://www.homely.com.au/homes/5-420-edgecliff-road-woollahra-nsw-2025/5052619 Grantchester] Retrieved 11 December 2019.
• Pennant Hills Golf Club Clubhouse, Beecroft, New South Wales (1925/1929/1939){{Citation | title=MODERN LIGHT FITTINGS AT PENNANT HILLS GOLF CLUB HOUSE | journal=Decoration and Glass | date=1939-07-01 | volume=5 | issue=2 | pages=54 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233729148 | access-date=1 March 2019 }}
• Mendoet 18 Wallis Avenue, Strathfield (1929 derelict for many years before being auctioned in 2025 with no heritage overlay)[https://strathfieldheritage.com/streetnames/wallis-avenue-strathfield/mendoet-18-wallis-ave-strathfield/ Mendoet Strathfield Heritage Retrieved 25 June 2024.]
• Western Suburbs Builders' Exchange 353–355 Liverpool Road Ashfield (1929) {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109639297 |title=Plan of Builders' Exchange, Ashfield |newspaper=Construction and Local Government Journal |location=NSW |date=29 May 1929 |access-date=22 August 2017 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• House 66 Wallaroy Road, Woollahra, New South Wales (1933)[https://www.onthehouse.com.au/property/nsw/woollahra-2025/66-wallaroy-rd-woollahra-nsw-2025-19416147 66 Wallaroy Road Woollahra NSW 2025] Retrieved 27 December 2021.
• Orwell 3 Turuga Street, Turramurra, New South Wales (1933)[https://chadwickrealestate.com.au/property/house-nsw-turramurra-1286265/ Orwell 3 Turuga Street Turramurra{{Citation | author1=Ku-ring-gai Historical Society | title=The Historian | date=1972 | publisher=Ku-ring-gai Historical Society | issn=0310-298X }}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16994817 |title=SATISFACTORY OUTLOOK. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=29,821 |date=1 August 1933 |access-date=9 June 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Wallis Hall Meriden School, Strathfield (1936){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17208271 |title=ADDITIONS TO SCHOOL. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=10 December 1935 |access-date=22 August 2017|page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Insurance House 263 George Street, Sydney (1939, sandstone fenestration only remains){{Citation | title=Two Interesting Sydney Remodelling Projects CONTRAST AND COMPARISON | journal=Building: The Magazine for the Architect, Builder, Property Owner and Merchant | date=1939-09-25 | volume=65 | issue=385 | pages=30 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233352077 | access-date=3 March 2019 }}

File:Upton Court Forbes Street Darlinghurst.jpg|Upton Court, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst

File:Kama Llandilo Avenue Strathfield.jpg|Kama, Llandilo Avenue, Strathfield

File:11_Kingsland_Road.png|Kingsland Road, Strathfield

File:Meriden1920.jpg|Wallis Hall, Meriden, Strathfield

File:117_Homebush_Road.jpg|Derwent, Homebush Road, Strathfield

File: 18_Wallis_Avenue.jpg|Wallis Avenue, Strathfield

File:Insurance_House_263_George_Street_Sydney.png|Insurance House, 263 George Street, Sydney

File:Commonwealth_Hotel_Surry_Hills_NSW.jpg|Commonwealth Hotel, 461 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills

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• [http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3562173 Aerial view of Sydney Stadium designed in 1912 by Sampson.]

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