Joseph aloysius hansom biography samples

&#;HANSOM, JOSEPH ALOYSIUS (–), architect and inventor, was born in York on 26 Oct. In he was apprenticed to his father, a joiner; but in the following year, having shown an aptitude for designing and construction, his articles were allowed to lapse, and new ones were taken out with Mr.

Phillips, an architect of York. Having served his time, in he &#; became a clerk to Mr. Phillips, doing also some work on his own account, and teaching a nightschool, where he improved his defective education. On 14 April he married Hannah Glover, and settling in Halifax became assistant to Mr.

Oates, architect, where for the first time he studied the Gothic style. In he entered into partnership with Edward Welch, and with him built churches in Liverpool, Hull, and the Isle of Man. Hansom's design for the Birmingham town hall in was accepted by the town commissioners, and he erected and completed that structure in , but the terms imp