MR. OULD
The death, on January 31, at Richmond House, Chester, is announced of Mr. Edward Augustus Lyle Ould, aged 56 years. Mr. Ould was a son of the late Rev. Fielding Ould, rector of Tattenhall, Cheshire. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1900, and became a member of the Architectural Association in 1896. Mr. Ould was a member of the firm of Messrs. Grayson & Ould, of James-street, Liverpool, who were the architects of several important buildings in that city, and in Lancashire, Cheshire, and the neighbouring counties, They were the architects of Bidston Court, Cheshire, a half-timbered house (1898) for Mr. R.W. Hudson, and of Wightwick Manor-house for the late Mr. S.J. Mander; the new buildings, Trinity Hall, the additions to Selwyn College, and the Clergy Training School, Cambridge: of many buildings for Messrs. Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight; the churches of St. Barnabas, Rock Ferry, and St. Faith. Waterloo; Wootton, parish church; the Girls’ Secondary Schools at Carlisle, and at Bootle (Balliol-road), 1907-8; the Bank of Liverpool at Wrexham; and — in Liverpool — the Mersey Tunnel railway-stations, illustrated in the Builder, February 28, 1885; Marine Insurance Office, Leyland & Bullen’s Bank, extension of the Stock Exchange Buildings, 1899; the Consumption Hospital at Mount Pleasant, 1903-4; and the recent enlargement of the Free Library, Wolverhampton; also the new wing, for 400 additional patients, and administrative block, 1898, of Uptom Asylum, near Chester. In March last Messrs. Grayson & Ould won the first premium in a competition, limited to six Liverpool architects, for the Cottage Hospital at Hoylake.
Bibliography
"Obituary: Mr. Ould." The Builder Vol. XCVI. 6 February 1909: 157. Internet Archive. Web. 8 August 2024.
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