(b Leeds, 11 Oct 1867; d Bournemouth, 28 March 1935). English architect, active in Canada. He was articled to his uncles, William Mawson (1828-89) and Richard Mawson (1834-1904), who from 1858 had designed Saltaire, W. Yorks, a model mill-town. After winning the Soane Medallion in 1890 and designing Cleckheaton Town Hall (1891), W. Yorks, in a Queen Anne Revival style, he travelled to Vancouver, BC, in 1892. The following year he won the competition to design the Provincial Legislative Buildings (1893-8), Victoria, with an impressive Romanesque Revival scheme. For the Nanaimo Court-house (1895-6) and Bank of Montreal (1896), Victoria, he used elements of the Scots Baronial and CH?TEAU STYLE. Bank branches at New Westminster (altered 1947), Rossland (destr.) and Nelson (all in British Columbia and all 1898-1900) were in a handsome Italianate style.

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