Frank Chesterton

Frank Sidney Chesterton (1877 – 11 November 1916) was an English architect.

Early life He was born in 1877 in Kensington, London, the son of Sidney Rawlins Chesterton and Katherine Eleanor Chesterton. His first cousin was the author G. K. Chesterton.

Career Chesterton designed the entire terrace of 12–54 Hornton Street, now Grade II listed, and built from 1903.

Chesterton served in the First World War, as a second lieutenant with the Royal Field Artillery, and died on 11 November 1916, aged 39, in the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte.

He was the father of Sir Oliver Chesterton, fifth-generation head of the family's estate agency business, and chairman of the Woolwich Building Society.