George Thomas Hine

George Thomas Hine FRIBA (1842–25 April 1916 ) was an English architect. His prolific output included new county asylums for Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Surrey, East Sussex and Worcestershire, as well as extensive additions to many others.

Biography Son of Thomas Chambers Hine of Nottingham, with whom he studied from 1858, and was in partnership from 1867 to 1891. He married in 1870 and had two children, Dr. Thomas Guy Macaulay Hine, and Muriel Hine the novelist.

Hine specialised in asylum architecture, and his paper to the RIBA in 1901 still provides a valuable review of asylum design and planning. In 1887, after winning the competition for the enormous new LCC (London County Council) asylum at Claybury, Essex, he established his practice in London. This was strengthened by his experience as Consulting Architect to the Commissioners in Lunacy, a post which he held from 1897, succeeding Charles Henry Howell. He was a frequent entrant for asylum competitions, winning his first, for Nottingham Asylum, in 1875. He competed in ten asylum competitions during the 1880s and 1890s, winning five of them, and served as assessor for four more. He designed and saw completed four major LCC asylums housing over 2,000 patients each (Claybury, Bexley, Horton and Long Grove), and his prolific output included new county asylums for Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Surrey, East Sussex and Worcestershire, as well as extensive additions to many others. 2nd Dorset County Asylum, Herrison extensions, 1890 Sunderland Borough Asylum, Cherry Knowle, 1891–95 3rd Middlesex County Asylum, Banstead, additions, 1893 Isle of Wight County Asylum, Whitecroft completion, 1893 Kesteven County Asylum, Rauceby, 1897-1902 London County Asylum, Bexley, 1898 Berkshire County Asylum, Fairmile extensions, 1898 Hertfordshire County Asylum, Hill End, 1900 Belfast Asylum for the Lunatic Poor, Purdysburn, 1900 London County Asylum, Horton, 1901–02 Cuckfield Isolation Hospital, Sussex 1902 East Sussex County Asylum, Hellingly, 1901–03 2nd Worcestershire County Asylum, Barnsley Hall, 1901–07 Surrey County Asylum, Netherne, 1901–09 London County Asylum, Long Grove, 1903–07 2nd Hampshire County Asylum, Park Prewett, 1912 Gateshead Borough Asylum, St. Mary's, 1910-14