Elizabeth Chesterton
Dame Elizabeth Ursula Chesterton DBE | |
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| Born | 12 October 1915 |
| Died | 18 August 2002 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Order of the British Empire |
| Practice | Cambridgeshire County Council, Architectural Association School of Architecture |
Dame Elizabeth Ursula Chesterton, DBE (12 October 1915 – 18 August 2002) was a British architect and town planner.
Biography
Chesterton was born on 12 October 1915 in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London.[1] Her father, Maurice Chesterton, was an architect, while her mother Dorothy Deck had connections with writers and artists in Bloomsbury. Her father would regularly live at sites where the buildings were being erected, including running the company that designed Royal Shakespeare Theatre under Elisabeth Scott.[2]
Chesterton moved with her family within Hampstead in the 1920s. She attended King Alfred School, then Queen's College,[2] before studying with Leonard Manasseh at the Architectural Association's School of Architecture in the late 1930s.[3] She graduated from the school in 1939, and joined East Suffolk County Council in the planning department.[2]
Career
In 1947, Chesterton joined
She combined her work as a planning officer, working for
She served on the
Chesterton was appointed DBE in the 1987 Birthday Honours.[2]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/25) with Elizabeth Chesterton in 1997 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[4]
References
- OCLC 56568095.
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- ^ Elain, Harwood (27 August 2002). "Dame Elizabeth Chesterton". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ^ National Life Stories, 'Chesterton, Elizabeth (1 of 11) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1997. Retrieved 10 April 2018
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