Ernest Newton

Ernest Newton, FRIBA, ARA (1856–1922) was an English architect and President of Royal Institute of British Architects.

Life

Newton was the son of an estate manager of Bickley, Kent. He was educated at Uppingham School. He married, in 1881, Antoinette Johanna Hoyack, of Rotterdam, and had three sons. He was resident again at Bickley in 1883 and built his own house at Bird in Hand Lane, Bickley in 1884. In the next 20 years he built many houses in the Bickley and Chislehurst area – no two being identical.

Career

He served his apprenticeship in the office of Richard Norman Shaw from 1873 to 1876, remaining for a further three years as an assistant before commencing private practice on his own account in London in February 1880. He was briefly in partnership with William West Neve around 1882. A founder member of the Art Workers Guild in the 1880s. He developed a career designing one-off houses largely in Bromley and Bickley and later moving into 'high profile' country home commissions across England.