Who was Alfred Waterhouse? (1830-1905)

Alfred Waterhouse was in Liverpool Waterhouse and articled to the architect Richard Lane before he set up his own practice in 1854. Today he is best known for his gothic revival designs for the Manchester Town Hall, London's Natural History Museum. Financially speaking Waterhouse was the most successful of all of the Victorian architects. He also designed the some of the most costly buildings of the period: Manchester Town Hall, Eaton Hall (for the Duke of Westminster) and The Natural History Museum. He operated from Manchester 1854-1865 and then London 1865-1902. His architectural practice is considered the most commercially successful of the Victorian age.

Ref. Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design, From Pugin to Mackintosh, Appendix of Architects, Designers and Manufacturers, pages 280-298, George Weidenfeld and Nicholson Ltd, 1993.

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