Rowland Plumbe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English architect
Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1838
Place of Birth: Whitechapel, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 02-Apr-1919
Profession: architect
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Rowland Plumbe
- Rowland Plumbe, also known as Roland Plumbe (2 February 1838, Whitechapel – 2 April 1919, Willesden), was an English architect, famous for being the author of many residential schemes across London, many being considered the first examples of the Victorian Garden City.
- Examples of these schemes are Queen's Park Estate and Noel Park. Plumbe also redesigned Woodlands Park House, now Woodlands Park Hotel, in Cobham for industrialist William Bryant; and designed the entertainment hall (completed 1879) at the Normansfield home for people with a learning disability in Teddington, built at the instigation of John Langdon Down.After leaving university college he was articled to Nockalls Johnson Cottingham and Frederick Peek, then spent 2 years in America with Frederick Clarke Withers.
- Plumbe returned to London in 1860 to start his own practice. His churches include the red-brick Perpendicular Gothic Revival St John the Baptist's Church at Loxwood, West Sussex.His students include Charles Worley, who was articled to him in 1870.
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