About Thomas Knightley
Lived 1824 – 1905 (aged 80–81). Thomas Knightley was a British architect.
Thomas Edward Knightley (1824–1905) was a British architect responsible for designing the Queen's Hall and St Paul's Church, Isle of Dogs in London.
Biography Knightley was sometimes considered eccentric; for example, he used the bodies of dead mice to act as a guide for the painters on the Queen's Hall, his preferred colour matching the shade of grey found on the mice's bellies.
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Who was Thomas Knightley?
British architect, 1823-1905
When was Thomas Knightley born?
Thomas Knightley was born in 1824.
When did Thomas Knightley die?
Thomas Knightley died in 1905.
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Thomas Knightley was an architect.
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Thomas Knightley was British.
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