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Newton, Ernest
(b London, 12 Sept 1856; d London, 25 Jan 1922). English architect. Articled to R. Norman Shaw in 1873, he was clerk of works for Shaw’s large house at Flete, Devon, built from 1877. While working in Shaw’s office, he met W. R. Lethaby, E. S. Prior and other young architects who, along with a number of artist-craftsmen, were later to form the ART WORKERS’ GUILD (1884). In 1879 he left Shaw’s office to form his own practice. Although, like most architects of the period, Newton did some church commissions, and even some public houses early in his career, his most important buildings were his carefully detailed, middle-class houses, built mostly in the outer suburbs of London.
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