Herbert Henry Dunn
English architect
Herbert Henry Dunn (c. 1865–1935) was an English architect who worked in Lincoln in the early 20th century before becoming the surveyor to the Cambridgeshire County Council. He designed buildings in Lincoln and Lincolnshire, before moving to Cambridgeshire shortly before the 1st World War. His most notable buildings in Cambridge are the County Hall which is now part of Christ's College and the Cambridgeshire Shire Hall. Dunn was also the architect for the pioneering Sawston Village College.
Career
Dunn was articled to William Skill, a surveyor at 58, Bailgate, Lincoln from 1882 to 1885. He then worked in the offices of W. Sindall builder in Cambridge from 1885 to 1887, and then as an improver and later assistant to William Cecil Marshall from 1887 to 1891. He returned to Lincoln to work as an assistant to James Thropp from 1891 to 1896. He qualified ARIBA in 1896 and was proposed by William Watkins, William Milner Fawcett, and William Douglas Caröe. He shortly afterwards set up his own office at St Peter's Churchyard in Silver Street, Lincoln. He was probably appointed Cambridgeshire county surveyor in 1910, after the death of William Milner Fawcett, who had previously held that position.
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