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Archibald Matthias Dunn FRIBA, JP, (1832 – 17 January 1917) born in Wylam in Northumberland, was with his partner Edward Joseph Hansom, among the foremost Catholic architects in North East England during the Victorian era.〔() Short biography of Dunn〕 ==Biography== His father was Matthias Dunn, a Mining Engineer and Manager and one of the first Government Inspectors of Mines for the North East of England. Archibald Dunn was educated at Ushaw College and Stonyhurst College. He then went to Bristol to be apprenticed to architect Charles Francis Hansom, the younger brother of Joseph Aloysius Hansom, the inventor of the Hansom cab and founder of ''The Builder''. It was here that Dunn met his future partner Edward Joseph Hansom, the son of his employer, Charles Francis Hansom.〔 Their principal works in North East England include the tower and spire of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the church of St. Michael in Elswick, Tyne and Wear. Dunn was also a prominent local landowner. Across the valley from Prudhoe is Castle Hill House (1878-9), which he designed and built as his own home in Wylam, where he had been born. Previously he had lived in Gateshead, where he was an Alderman, Mayor and a Justice of the Peace for County Durham. In 1870 was Dunn was President of the Northern Architectural Association.〔 In 1862 Dunn married Sara Armstrong, an author. They both enjoyed travel, and in 1886 Dunn published a book entitled ‘Notes and Sketches of an Architect', which was a collection of sketches made in France, Germany, Spain and England. Dunn retired between 1883 – 87, with his architectural firm later becoming Dunn, Hansom & Fenwicke.〔() Dunn & Hansom Architectural Practice〕 In 1901 the Dunns moved to Wood House, Branksome Park, in Bournemouth, where he died on 17 January 1917 aged 85. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Archibald Matthias Dunn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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