About John Samuel Phene
Lived 1824 – 1912 (aged 87–88). John Samuel Phene was an architect.
John Samuel Phene FRGS, FSA, FRIBA (1822 – 11 March 1912) was a British architect, who lived in Chelsea, London, for more than 50 years.
Biography He was born the son of William Phene, a London businessman and educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, Durham University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was then articled to architect R. A. Hardwick. An apocryphal story reports that his wife died on her wedding day, leading to Phene preserving the room in the mansion where the reception had been held. He subsequently inherited land in Chelsea, and built Margaretta Terrace and Phene Street, including the Phene Arms.
Phene designed the new wing of the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn Road in the late 1850s.
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(1824-1912), Scholar, antiquarian and architect
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