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Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, UK

Guildford Cathedral, Maufe's brick masterpiece

Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe was an English architect (born 12 December 1883 in Ilkley, Yorkshire; died on his birthday in 1974 in Buxted, East Sussex).

He read Architecture at St John's College, Oxford (BA 1908, MA 1919) and studied Design at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

His first commission was Kelling Hall in Norfolk (1912). Other works include the Festival Theatre in Cambridge, the Air Forces Memorial overlooking Runnymede, the Oxford Playhouse, St Columba's Church (Pont Street, London SW1) and won the competition to design Guildford Cathedral (1932). He was the architect chiefly responsible, in the 1950s for the rebuilding of much of Gray's Inn and the Inner Temple which had been heavily damaged in bombing during World War II. He worked for the Imperial War Graves Commission (1943-1969) as principal architect (UK), then chief architect and artistic advisor; he was knighted for his work with the Commission.

Apparently indexed in the 1901 Census^[1] as "Edward B. Muff", an architect in Hampstead, he moved with his parents during the next decade to Red House, Bexleyheath, London which was originally designed for, and owned by, William Morris. The family name was originally Muff but was changed to Maufe in 1909.^[2]

When he received a knighthood early in 1954, Maufe lived at 139 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3. He died at his home at Shepherd's Hill, Buxted, Sussex in 1974. He married Gladys Stutchbury in 1910 and had one son.

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[0] 1901 census

[1] Bradford Telegraph & Argus End in store for Brown, Muffs

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