Godfrey Pinkerton
Godfrey Pinkerton was a London-based British architect.Biography
Early life
Godfrey Pinkerton was born at Godstone, Surrey, England. The third child of George Pinkerton and Mary, née Easum. His siblings were Eustace, a member of the London Stock Exchange, Algernon Robert, the poet and translator Percy E. Pinkerton and Mary who married the solicitor Gilbert Mainwaring Robinson. His grandfather was Reverend Dr Robert Pinkerton D.D., principal agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He died in Kensington, London.Career
He attended the Liverpool School of Art and was articled to H & H P Fry of Liverpool from 1875 to 1879 and remained as assistant. He was assistant to Henry Saxon Snell from 1880, and started his own practice in London from 1884.
He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institution of British Architects in 1908 and operated from offices at 39 St Andrew's Square in Surbiton, then 10 Lincoln's Inn Fields before the First World War, and then 2 Gray's Inn Sq, London, WC1.Works
He died at Kensington in 1937, and it appears that he never married.
