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John Stanley Coombe Beard FRIBA (17 July 1890 – 1970),〔Antonia Brodie, ''Directory of British Architects 1834–1914'', London/New York: Continuum, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7201-2352-4, 2 vols., Volume 1 A–K, (p. 141 )〕 known professionally as J. Stanley Beard, was an English architect known for designing many cinemas in and around London. ==Biography== Beard was born in 1890, son of Percy Edward Beard of Essex. He was educated at King Alfred's School, Wantage, Berkshire.〔''Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes'' 95, London: Kelly's Directories, 1969, (p. 95 )〕〔A genealogy site gives his birthplace as Sydenham Damerel, Devon, and his date of death as 22 November 1970.〕 He was elected LRIBA in 1925 and FRIBA in 1927. He was in partnership with Alfred Douglas Clare, as J Stanley Beard & Clare until Clare's death in July 1936,〔〔Allen Eyles, ''Odeon Cinemas'' volume 1: ''Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation'', Cinema Theatre Association, London: British Film Institute, 2002, ISBN 0-85170-813-7, (p. 112 ) and (note ); Clare also practised on his own.〕 and after that with Walter Robert Francis Bennett, who became the senior partner in 1947.〔(John Stanley Coombe Beard ) at Dictionary of Scottish Architects.〕 The company became J Stanley Beard Bennett Wilkins & Partners in 1960 (later simply Beard Bennett Wilkins & Partners) after absorbing Ralph Roland Wilkins.〔(Walter Robert Francis Bennett ) at Dictionary of Scottish Architects.〕 In July 1937, when he was living in Hampstead, a telephone call made by his wife about an attempted burglary resulted in the first arrest attributable to the new 999 emergency number.〔Keith Moore, ("Dial 999: 75 years of emergency phone calls" ), BBC News magazine, 29 June 2012.〕 Beard became a Justice of the Peace.〔 He retired in 1963.〔''RIBA Journal'' 71 (p. 86 ).〕 In retirement, he restored the gardens at Compton Acres in Poole, Dorset.〔Conrad Lighton, ''Cape Floral Kingdom: The Story of South Africa's Wild Flowers, and the People who Found, Named and Made them Famous the World Over'', rev. ed. Cape Town: Juta, 1973, ISBN 978-0-7021-0443-5, (p. 131 ).〕〔John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner, ''Dorset'', The Buildings of England, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, repr. New Haven, Connecticut/London: Yale University, 2002, ISBN 0-300-09598-8, (p. 332 ).〕 One architectural historian has judged Beard's cinemas as "excellent, if stylistically slightly eccentric".〔Richard Gray, ''Cinemas in Britain: One Hundred Years of Cinema Architecture'', The Cinema Theatre Association, London: Lund Humphries, 1996, ISBN 978-0-85331-685-5, p. 27.〕 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「John Stanley Coombe Beard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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