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R.W. Symonds
Robert Wemyss Symonds Royal Institute of British Architects, FRIBA (31 December 1889 – 5 September 1958) was a British architect, and "the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture".Symonds, R. W. (Robert Wemyss), 1889–1958 research papers.
The Winterthur Library. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
His complicated love life, before he married respectably, included affairs with two women, the first of which produced children he never acknowledged, and the second with a woman who he discovered was already married and who was subsequently jailed for perjury in her divorce case.


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Robert Symonds was born on 31 December 1889, the son of the artists William Robert Symonds and Margaret Hogg Swan Symonds. He was educ ...
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