Alfred Edward Simpson
Alfred Edward Simpson was an architect in South Australia, for 18 years that State's Architect in Chief.History
Simpson was born in Woodville, South Australia, the only child of Edward Robert Simpson of the South Australian Company and Jane Mossman "Jeanie" Simpson née Davie who married on 28 February 1865. Jeanie married again, to William Gilbert MP on 14 April 1904.
Simpson was educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide before being articled to D. Garlick & Son architects.
He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Architects and on 17 March 1890 joined the S.A. Works and Buildings Department as a draftsman, and was promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Public Buildings in November 1917 and Superintendent in 1920.
Simpson was elected a Fellow of the South Australian Institute of Architects in 1914. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. He was awarded the Imperial Service Order in June 1936.
He retired in June 1938 and died two years later.Notable works
Simpson married Frances Isabella Kell on 7 September 1898.
- Brian Kell Simpson married Elsie Gwendoline Sandford Colquhoun in 1927
- Dorothy Mary Kell "Mollie" Simpson, one of South Australia's first physiotherapists, married Rev., later Canon, Horace Percy Finnis on 6 January 1945.
- Bessie Hope Kell Simpson married Eric Alfred Burden in 1935
- *John Edward Burden
- *Robert Michael Burden married Margaret Anne Leahy and Margaret Stewart-Jones on 30 June 2000
- **Michael John Burden
- **Alison Anne Burden
- *Catherine Mary Burden
They had a home in Watson Avenue, Toorak Gardens. They were not clearly related to the South Australian family of industrialists.
