Life and Work
His London office was once called "The Eton of architects' offices". His pupils included Herbert Baker, Guy Dawber, John Bradshaw Gass, Edwin Lutyens and Ethel Charles.
In the 1870s in partnership with Harold Peto George designed houses in London for the Cadogan Estate in Chelsea and Kensington, and a number of country houses. In 1881 they designed Stoodleigh Court at Tiverton for Thomas Carew. In 1891 they designed an extension to West Dean House for William James, creating the Oak Room, now Oak Hall in West Dean College.
Between 1870 and 1911 George designed several houses with his former pupil, Alfred B. Yeates.
For New Zealand, which he never visited, he designed the Theomin family house Olveston (house) in Dunedin which was built 1904-1907.
He was also responsible for the current Southwark Bridge (1921), and the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in London's Postman's Park.
He served as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1908 to 1910.
In the late 19th century, George trained Ethel Charles, the first woman to be elected a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
George's residence at 17 Bartholomew St, London Borough of Southwark is commemorated with a Southwark Council blue plaque.
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