Walter George Tarrant

Walter George Tarrant (8 April 1875 – 18 March 1942) was a

During World War One, his company manufactured large numbers of prefabricated wooden huts for military use on the Western Front and also designed and constructed the

The company employed 5,000 people at Byfleet in the 1920s but towards the end of the decade

In August 1931, W G Tarrant Ltd entered receivership but the building department survived, reforming as Tarrant Builders Ltd with Tarrant's eldest son Percy as a director. This company built many houses in Virginia Water before and after World War II and the original company's land became owned by Wentworth Estates Ltd.

Around 1940, Tarrant purchased Hafod Estate at Eglwys Newydd, near Cwmystwyth above Aberystwyth in Wales and moved to live there soon afterwards. He soon began felling trees for use as pit-props for the war-effort and also started to plan the restoration of the neglected mansion there. He died on 18 March 1942 at Hafod Mansion, as a result of a coronary thrombosis and was buried in the Hafod churchyard.

Biographer

Extensive research into the housebuilding was carried out by Mavis Swenarton who in 1992 described Tarrant as 'a man of vision and enterprise... with a reputation for high quality materials and good workmanship... an imposing figure, over six ft tall and a thick beard which gave him a striking resemblance to King Edward VII'.^[1]

Aircraft

• Tarrant Tabor

References

Bibliography

• Norris, Richard (2008) 'The Life and Works of Walter George Tarrant' (self-published)
• Swenarton, Mavis (1992) 'Inventory of Tarrant-Built Houses on St George's Hill' (Walton & Weybridge Local History Society).
• Swenarton, Mavis (1994) 'Tarrant-Built Houses in Pyrford Woods' (apparently self-published).

Citations

External links

• The houses that Tarrant built article on findaproperty.com
• Elmbridge Museum - Article 'WG Tarrant: Master Builder and Developer'