Elizabeth Chesterton

Elizabeth Ursula Chesterton
Born (1915-10-12)12 October 1915
Died 18 August 2002(2002-08-18) (aged 86)
Nationality British
Occupation Architect
Awards Order of the British Empire
Practice Cambridgeshire County Council,
Architectural Association School of Architecture

Elizabeth Ursula Chesterton (12 October 1915 – 18 August 2002) was a British architect and town planner.

Education

She studied with Leonard Manasseh at the Architectural Association in the late 1930s.[1]

Career

She combined her work as a planning officer, working for Cambridgeshire County Council from 1947, with teaching at University College London and later at the Architectural Association.

She served on the Royal Fine Art Commission, the National Trust's Architectural Panel and the Historic Buildings Council (later part of English Heritage) from the 1970s until the 1990s.

Chesterton received her DBE in 1987.

References

  1. Elain, Harwood. "Dame Elizabeth Chesterton". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.

External links

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