Godfrey Pinkerton

Godfrey Pinkerton was born at Godstone, Surrey, England. The third child of George Pinkerton (1823, Russia [British Subject] – 1899 Kingston, Surrey) and Mary, née Easum (1823, Stepney – 1868, St. Pancras). His siblings were Eustace (born 1852, Stoke Newington), a member of the London Stock Exchange, Algernon Robert (born 1853, Stoke Newington - d.1937 Rokeby, Tasmania, Australia), the poet and translator Percy E. Pinkerton (1855, Stoke Newington, Middlesex – 1946, Porthleven, Cornwall) and Mary (born 1860, Godstone, Surrey) who married the solicitor Gilbert Mainwaring Robinson. His grandfather was Reverend Dr Robert Pinkerton D.D., principal agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS). He died in Kensington, London.

He attended the Liverpool School of Art and was articled to H & H P Fry of Liverpool from 1875 to 1879 and remained as assistant. He was assistant to Henry Saxon Snell from 1880, and started his own practice in London from 1884.[1]

He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institution of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1908 and operated from offices at 39 St Andrew's Square in Surbiton, then 10 Lincoln's Inn Fields before the First World War, and then 2 Gray's Inn Sq, London, WC1.[2]

St Mary's Church, Keble Street, Summerstown

• St Mark’s Parish Hall, Balaclava Road, Surbiton, 1888-89[3]
• St Mary's Church, Summerstown, London, SW17. 1903 Grade II listed[4][5]
• National Westminster Bank building at Pavilion Buildings, Brighton. 1905 Grade II listed[6]
• St Edith's Hall, Kemsing. 1911. Grade II listed[7]
• Kemsing War Memorial. 1921 Grade II listed[8]

He died at Kensington in 1937, and it appears that he never married.[9]