Leonard Manasseh
Leonard Sulla Manasseh was a British architect, best known for the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, which he co-designed with Ian Baker.
He was born in Eden Hall, Singapore, which was then the house of his uncle Ezekiel Manasseh, a rice and opium merchant, and is now the residence of the British High Commissioner.
Manasseh's reputation rose with his work at the Festival of Britain, and he formed Leonard Manasseh and Partners with Ian Baker, becoming "one of the leading British architects of the 1960s".
In 1958-60 Rutherford School, Paddington, was built to a design by Manasseh and Baker and in 1964 they designed the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. In the 1982 Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
He turned 100 in May 2016 and died in March 2017.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview with Leonard Manasseh in 1998 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.
