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Trained as a quantity surveyor. He was presumably born in England where he was educated in Maidenhead and at Westminster (School?). He was first recorded in South Africa as serving in the Anglo-Boer War. After the war he remained in the country and was employed by HAWKE & McKINLAY, supervising the erection of the Law Courts in Bloemfontein (1906-1910). He later supervised the erection of the Johannesburg City Hall for HAWKE & McKINLAY (1910-1914). In 1913 McKINLAY & WHITE were shortlisted in a competition to design the National Women's Monument (Vrouemonument) in Bloemfontein. During the First World War he enlisted and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the ROYAL ENGINEERS. He was given a permanent Regimental commission an attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and retired from the Regimental Reserve of officers in about 1928. After the war he returned to practice as a quantity surveyor and in 1919 was elected President of the South African Institute of Quantity Surveyors. By 1928 he was working in Cape Town and by 1929/1930 he was recorded as a retired member of the Institute of South African Architects, living in Salisbury (Harare), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); by 1948 he was living at The Aloes, Uvongo Beach in Natal. MC; ISAA 1928. (A&B Mar 1918:238; Afr Archt Sep 1913:260; ISAA mem list; ISAA Ybk 1929-30; Jnl ATA Feb 1916:10) 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. List of projects With photographs With notes
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