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Adolphus Croft (1831 - 22 March 1893) was the in-house architect for the furniture manufacturers Gillow & Company, later
Waring & Gillow Waring & Gillow (also written as Waring and Gillow) was a noted firm of English furniture manufacturers and antique dealers formed in 1897 by the merger of Gillows of Lancaster and London and Waring of Liverpool. Background Gillow & Co. The fi ...
.


Early life

Adolphus Croft was born in 1831 John Croft and Emma Croft. At the time of the 1861 census, the family were living at 26 Wellington Street,
Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ...
, London. The census of that year records that Adolphus had brothers Arthur (1828) and John (1841) who were artists, and a sister Jessy (1841).


Career

Croft designed South Park in East Sussex, later known as Wadhurst College, which with its stable block are both
grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ir ...
with
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. He designed Carlyle House, Chelsea Embankment, London which ''The Building News and Engineering Journal'' described as "rather too broken up to be deemed a pleasing example of the style it reproduces". In 1888 he built three mansions at 127 and 128
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, London. He died at South Park on 22 March 1893.


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*https://web.archive.org/web/20160630011722/http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/news/sussex-school-now-listed-at-grade-ii/ 1831 births Architects from London 1893 deaths {{UK-architect-stub