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Edward Staveley

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Edward Staveley (8 Sep 1767 - 1837) was an architect based in Nottingham.[1]

Career[edit]

He was born in 1767 in Melton Mowbray, the son of Christopher Staveley (architect) and Sarah Hill.[citation needed]

He was appointed Nottingham Corporation Surveyor on 10 June 1796.[2] For his annual salary of £20 (£Error when using {{Inflation}}: |index=UK (parameter 1) not a recognized index. as of 2024) [3] he also acted as Borough Treasurer. In 1831, jointly with Henry Moses Wood, he produced a detailed plan and map of Nottingham and its suburbs.

One of his pupils was Thomas Hawksley[4] who engineered Britain's first high pressure 'constant supply', preventing contamination entering the supply of clean water mains.[5]

Two of his other pupils, Henry Moses Wood and Robert Jalland were also successful local architects.

Buildings[edit]

Plumptre Hospital

References[edit]

  1. Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire. Vol 102, p114. Thoroton Society. 1999
  2. Records of the Borough of Nottingham, Being a Series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham, Volume 7. Nottingham (England). 1947.
  3. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  4. Hawksley, Thomas, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  5. "Nottingham Water Supply – history".

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