Frank Chesterton (architect)
English architect (1877–1916)
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Frank Sidney Chesterton (1877 – 11 November 1916) was an English architect.
Early life
He was born in 1877 in Kensington, London, the son of Sidney Rawlins Chesterton and Katherine Eleanor Chesterton.[1] His first cousin was the author G. K. Chesterton.[2]
Career
Chesterton designed the entire terrace of 12–54 Hornton Street, now Grade II listed, and built from 1903.[3]
Chesterton served in the First World War, as a second lieutenant with the Royal Field Artillery, and died on 11 November 1916, aged 39, in the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte.[1]
Personal life
Chesterton was married to Nora Chesterton, and they lived at 28 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, London,[1] and later at Scarsdale Villas, Kensington.[4]
He was the father of Sir Oliver Chesterton, fifth-generation head of the family's estate agency business, and chairman of the Woolwich Building Society.[5]
