William Tatton-Brown

William Eden Tatton Brown (13 October 1910 - 2 February 1997) was an English architect. From 1959, he was the first chief architect to the UK's Ministry of Health, taking charge of large-scale hospital building until the mid-1970s.

Early career William Tatton Brown was born on 13 October 1910 at Lewes in Sussex, the son of Eden Tatton Brown, head of the Egyptian Customs Services and Pauline Stewart-Jones. The family lived in Egypt for some years before returning to England. William Tatton Brown then went to a school in Rottingdean before attending Wellington College. However, this work was subsequently regarded as a "a preliminary survey of London by a section of the MARS Group", and a new and larger Town Planning Committee was convened under Arthur Korn's leadership in December 1937 to produce a revised plan for London under the auspices of the MARS Group which exhibited the initial city ideas at its New Burlington Galleries exhibition in 1938. In the same year, Tatton Brown set up in independent practice, then formed a partnership with Lionel Brett, later Lord Esher. and was a member of the Construction Research Advisory Council established in 1967.

Despite officially retiring in 1971, he continued to work for several years, and in 1985, a book he co-wrote with Paul James, Hospitals: Design and Development, was published. Stratton's Tower refurbishment, Little Berkhamsted (1971) Greenwich District Hospital (1972)

Personal life In 1936 Tatton Brown married Aileen Sparrow, a former pupil of Leslie Martin and one of three women working at Tecton. They lived initially in fellow architect Jane Drew's house in Woburn Square. They later lived in Little Berkhamsted, and had four children.