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Samuel Perkins Pick (1858
Samuel Perkins Pick FRIBA
', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Accessed 11 April 2016. – 23 May 1919) was an English
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strongly associated with
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, and co-founder of the architecture and civil engineering firm Pick Everard.


Early career

The son of a veterinary surgeon, Pick was born in
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and educated at
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Grammar School, where he was introduced to two artists (Harry Ward and
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) who encouraged him to produce drawings of buildings, some of which were published in '' The Builder''. In 1884, when he was awarded a medal by the
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, he was described as an architectural apprentice of John Breedon Everard of
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and assistant teacher at the Leicester School of Art. In 1888 he entered into partnership with Everard. In 1911, the partnership was expanded to include William Keay, forming the partnership of Pick, Everard and Keay, with premises at 6 Millstone Lane, Leicester.


Major work

His works included: *the County Mental Hospital (later known as
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) at Narborough (1904–07) *extensions to the
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, the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum (now the Fielding Johnson Building of the
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), the Borough Mental Hospital (The Towers Hospital), and Leicester's technical and art schools (now the Hawthorn Building of
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). *the Midlands Agricultural and Dairy College (1895; today the
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's Sutton Bonington Campus) at
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, Nottinghamshire *extensions to the
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,
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*major extensions to
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,
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, and the Coppice Mental Hospital, Nottingham. *St Michael and All Angels Church, Leicester (1897–98) *the
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building in St. Martin's, Leicester (1900 - later National Westminster Bank) *St Phillip's Church, Leicester (1909–13) *houses in Victoria Park Road, Leicester *the façade of the Marquis Wellington
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, 139 London Road, Leicester He twice served as president of the Leicester Society of Architects, was elected a fellow and vice-president of the
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, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of the
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.


References

1858 births 1919 deaths Architects from Leicester Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects People from Kettering {{UK-architect-stub