Joseph Lea Gleave

Joseph Lea Gleave (5 August 1907 – 16 January 1965) was a British architect. In 1931, when he was 23, he won the international architectural competition for the Columbus Lighthouse in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic, a memorial monument that was a tribute to Christopher Columbus. Later in his career he became known for the designing of a number of Scottish hospitals.

Life Gleave was the son of a farmer, James Gleave and his wife Hannah née Lea. for several months, before moving to work with Francis Jones as assistant, between 1927 and 1928. In the same year Gleave moved employment again to Thomas Cecil Howitt from 1929 to 1930. in Manchester. At the time, his practice was expanding. with a penchant for late night working, sometimes as late as 4a.m., his approach led to differences and eventually arguments with the two other partners in the firm, Henderson and Alex Smellie. This led him in early 1958 to establish his own consultancy,

Death On 16 January 1965, Gleave died in the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. He has been suffering from cancer for more than a year, but diagnosed in the spring of the year before.

His wife, Margaret Grierson Sutherland survived him. He had two children, a daughter Carolyn, who was an interior designer and a son David. His son David also trained as an architect. He would go on to join his father's old practice in 1987 that changing name as partners came and went and time went on, eventually becoming Young & Gault.

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