Sir (Edward) Guy Dawber RA, PRIBA
Born 3 August 1861
Died 24 April 1938
Active: 1911 - 1935
Architect, painter in watercolour, illustrator
Born at King's Lynn, Norfolk. Died at 64 Hamilton Terrace, London.
Wealth at death: £10,471 18s. 2d.
Probate date: 28 June 1938
Institutional and Business Connections
Honorary treasurer of Artists' General Benevolent Institution
Member of Art Workers Guild
1896 - 1930
Retired in 1930
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1936
Served as a Member of the Council from 1936. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1935', (1936), p. 46.
Personal and Professional Connections
Employed George Harry Cox
Dawber commissioned Cox to work on Caldy Manor, Cheshire; Conkwell Grange, Wiltshire; Nether Swell Manor; and Solom's Court before 1909.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1911, p.7.
Catalogue of the 78th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1937
1937
Advert on inside cover
Catalogue of the 79th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1938
1938
Advert on inside cover
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
M. S. Briggs, ‘Dawber, Sir (Edward) Guy (1861–1938)’, rev. Kaye Bagshaw, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32748, accessed 26 June 2009]
Citing this record
'Sir (Edward) Guy Dawber RA, PRIBA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1216639153, accessed 22 Sep 2023]
