About Richard Allison
Lived 1869 – 1958 (aged 88–89). Richard Allison was a British architect.
Sir Richard John Allison (1869–1958) was a Scottish architect. From 1889 he was associated with the government Office of Works in London (as example The Science Museum), and from 1914 was its chief architect.
Selected works The Science Museum, London (1919–28) The Duveen wing, National Portrait Gallery, London (1933), with J G West. The Geological Museum, London The Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast (1933), with J G West. The British Ambassador's house in Diplomatstaden, Stockholm (1915).
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Who was Richard Allison?
Scottish architect
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Richard Allison was born in 1869 in Scotland.
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Richard Allison died in 1958.
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Richard Allison was an architect.
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Richard Allison was British.
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