Henry Marley Burton
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Captain Henry Marley Burton FRIBA (1821–1880) was a British architect, who was trained by Decimus Burton and trained Edward John May FRIBA.
He was the eldest, and illegitimate, son of the gunpowder-manufacturer William Ford Burton (1784 – 1856): who was the eldest son of the pre-eminent London property developer James Burton.[1][2][3][4] Henry Marley Burton had one brother who was William Warwick Burton (d. 21 October 1861),[5][6][7] who resided at Lincoln's Inn Fields and was articled as a solicitor to his uncle Septimus Burton (1794 – 1842).
Henry Marley Burton was baptized as Henry Marley on 12 December 1821: when he was claimed to be the son of William Marley by Sally Marley, who were neighbours of the Burtons.[5]
Architect
Henry Marley Burton was trained in the office of his uncle Decimus Burton,[3] whose practice he inherited when Decimus retired, in 1869, after they had trained the architect Edward John May FRIBA.[8][4][9] In 1866, Henry Marley was commissioned by John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton to design a mansion at Coneyborough, after Decimus had designed Bineham in Chailey for Dodson's brother-in-law John George Blencowe.[10] He supervised the construction of additions to the Oriental Club, which were designed by Decimus Burton in 1853, when it eventually commenced in 1871.[11]