Goymour Cuthbert

He was born on 25 February 1849 in Paternoster Row, London, the son of John Ranson Cuthbert (1804-1876) and Sarah Mary Ann Hayward (1819-1889) and baptised on 3 April 1849 in Little Blakenham, Suffolk.

On 18 June 1883 he married Marion Linford (1857–1941) in St Mary’s Church, Finchley and they had the following children.

• Enid Goymour Cuthbert (1884–1970)
• Hazel Haward Cuthbert (1886–1952)
• Berwyne Minna Cuthbert (1887–1970)
• Milroy Westell Cuthbert (1889–1970)
• Olaf Ranson Cuthbert (1891–1916)
• Galantha Midlred Cuthbert (1894–1934)

He died on 26 February 1902 in Eastbourne, Sussex leaving an estate valued at £6879 (equivalent to £699,600 in 2023).^[2]

He joined the London Rifle Brigade as a private in July 1870 and took a commission in March 1885.^[3] He was promoted captain in April 1893 and received the honorary rank of major in November 1897 and the substantive rank in April 1901. He was made Lieutentant-Colonel in August 1902. He was an authority on tactics on which he lectured at the London Rifle Brigade headquarters, and before the Metropolitan Sergeants’ Tactical Association, a frequent umpire at War Games. In April 1900 he received a special certificate from the War Office as a qualified lecturer.^[4]

He was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration in 1898.^[5]

He was pupil of architects Sir Henry Arthur Hunt, Charles Stephenson and Harry Jones. He was appointed an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1882.

• Palsgrave Hotel (then Lloyds Bank from 1894–2017), Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London 1882–83 (with William Wimble)^[6] Grade II listed^[7]
• Union Bank of Australia, 73 Cornhill, London 1890^[8] Grade II listed^[9]
• Wesleyan Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate Street, London 1901^[10] (demolished)

• Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). London 6: Westminster. The Buildings of England. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09595-1.