Roy Lovell-Smith

Leonard Roy Lovell-Smith (born Leonard Roy Smith; 26 September 1884 – 25 April 1972) was a New Zealand architect.

Early life and family Leonard Roy Smith was born in Christchurch on 26 September 1884, the son of the printer and stationer William Sidney Smith and his wife Mary Jane (Jennie) Smith (née Cumberworth). The family later changed their surname to Lovell-Smith. and artist Colin Lovell-Smith.

Career Lovell-Smith served articles with A.H. Hart and qualified as an architect in 1905, establishing his own practice that year, as well as becoming the youngest associate member thus far of the newly formed New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Lovell-Smith's parents were friends of Kate Shepard, and she provided the funds with which the family home "Midway", on Middleton Road in Riccarton, was built in 1920. Lovell-Smith designed it in the English Domestic Revival style, and lived there in the 1930s and again after his conversion of it into flats in 1949. Significant residential properties include the former Methodist Parsonage in Kaiapoi (1914), and the landmark Skellerup House in Christchurch.

Death Lovell-Smith died on 25 April 1972,