• Source: James Edwin Forbes

      • James Edwin Forbes FRIBA (1876 - 1955) was an architect primarily based in London from 1905 to 1930 in partnership with John Duncan Tate.


      Architectural career


      He was articled to George Washington Browne (1853-1939) from 1892 to 1896, and then was assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson. He studied at the Edinburgh School of Applied Art and in 1899 became assistant to Edward William Mountford in London until 1901 when he won the Grissell Medal.
      In 1901 he commenced a practice in Colmore House, 21 Waterloo Street, Birmingham where his assistant was John Duncan Tate. In 1903 he won second prize of £200 in the competition for designs for the new University building proposed to be erected in Cape Town for the Cape of Good Hope University.
      In 1905 he formed a partnership with Tate at 38 Great James Street on Bedford Road in London. This partnership became prolific in its output of domestic houses in the arts and crafts style, mainly in the Home Counties.
      He was admitted as LRIBA in 1910 and FRIBA in 1916.


      Personal life


      He was born in 1876 in Edinburgh, the son of Revd. William George Forbes (1838-1884) and Janet Tod (1848-1908)
      He married Gwendolen Evans (1878-1941) daughter of the late Dr George Harrison Evans FRCS and Mrs Agnes Louisa Chance on 1 January 1904 in St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston and they had two sons:

      Ian Forbes (1905-1969) (also an architect)
      Douglas McWhirter (Mcquerter) Forbes (1907-1979)
      After the death of his first wife, he married Barbara Gordon Hollingsworth (1914-1971) in Amersham in 1942.
      He died on 22 April 1955 at the Old Ship Inn, Brighton, and left an estate valued at £2,684 11s 5d.
      (equivalent to £89,000 in 2023).


      Works


      Pollard's Wood House, Nightingale Lane, Chalfont St Giles 1906
      The Sheiling, Chalfont St Giles 1907 (built as his own house)
      The Pollards, Oval Way, Gerrards Cross
      Brown Cottage, Oval Way, Gerrards Cross
      Kimberley, Oval Way, Gerrards Cross
      Pollards Park, Chalfont St Giles for Archibald Grove MP 1907
      Pollards Wood Grange, Buckinghamshire ca. 1909
      Little Pednor, Chartridge, 1910-12 (enlarged)
      Brantfell, Gerrards Cross, ca. 1911
      House at 40 Parkway, Gidea Park, Romford, ca. 1911
      The Pillars, Northwood, London ca. 1911
      Widenham House, West Common, Gerrards Cross
      Paddock House, West Common, Gerrard's Cross. ca 1913
      Baylins Farmhouse, Penn Road, Knotty Green 1919 (loggia addition)
      War Memorial Hall, Ballinger, Buckinghamshire 1922
      Barrington Court, Somerset 1921-25 (restoration)
      Beechams, Barrington Court, Somerset 1921-25
      House, 8 Upper Grosvenor Street, London 1927-28 (remodelled, with front elevation by Lutyens)
      House for J. Crook, Chalfont Road, Amersham 1928


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