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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon PARKINS, Walter William Born: ? Died: 1955 09 Architect Was listed working as an architect in Cape Town in 1915. By 1920/21 he was listed in the RIBA Kalendar for that year working in Hankow in China for Hemmings & Berkley. He returned to South Africa in about 1926, working in Port Elizabeth before moving to Cape Town where he was working by 1928. He was living at St John's in Malleson Rd, Mowbray in Cape Town when he registered as a member of the Institute of South African Architects in 1928, stating in his papers that he had been employed in the practice of architecture for 31 years. He died in the Cape. ISAA 1928. (Gen dir USA 1915; ISAA mem list; RIBA Kal 1920-21; SAAR Jul 1956:33, death notice) All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.