John Breedon Everard

John Breedon Everard (22 September 1844 – 12 September 1923) was an English civil engineer and architect strongly associated with works in Leicestershire, and co-founder of the firm Pick Everard.

Personal life Everard was born in Groby, Leicestershire, the son of a mine and quarry owner, Breedon Everard (1814–1882).

Career In 1862, Everard was articled to John Brown, a partner in Messrs Brown and Jeffcock, a firm of civil and mining engineers in Barnsley and Sheffield, South Yorkshire. In 1866, he was appointed assistant resident engineer on construction of the Kentish Town to St Pancras section of the Midland Railway.

In 1868, Everard set up in practice as a civil engineer in Leicester. He became a partner in the firm of Ellis and Everard (later Aggregate Industries) in 1874, helping in the development of the Bardon Hill quarry and associated worker facilities including a school (1895) and two churches, at Hugglescote (built in two phases, 1878, 1887) and Bardon (1898).

Other designs by Everard include: A Victorian Turkish baths building in Leicester, opened in Friar Lane in 1872 (now housing the Leicester Law Society Library), A new tower brewery in 1875 for his uncle, the brewer William Everard's Everards Brewery at Southgate St, Leicester. The Leicestershire South African War Memorial (unveiled in July 1909).

He built himself a large red brick house, Woodville, in Leicester's Knighton Park Road in 1883, and by the end of the century he was in partnership with Samuel Perkins Pick (architect of the County Lunatic Asylum at Narborough, 1904–7). The firm survives to this day as Pick Everard. He was also a member of the Surveyors' Institute and the Mining Institute.