Edward Goldie

• Birth date            1856 at Sheffield
• Marriage              21 July 1880 to Nathalie,  fourth daughter  of  Alexander  C Devaux at at Fresnay-sur-Mer, Calvados, France
• Death date          10 October 1921 at St. Servan France
• Burial                  St Joaun des Guerets, St Servan, France.

Edward Goldie,  was born  at  Sheffield in  1856,  the eldest son  of the architect George  Goldie,  and  his  wife,  Mdlle  Stylite  Siochan  de Kersabiec,  of  St  Servan. France. He was educated at St Cuthbert's, Ushaw before being articled to his father in 1875. He commenced independent practice 1880. In partnership with George Goldie and, with Charles Edwin Child under the style Goldie Child and Goldie. By 1893 the partnership with Child had ended and he worked alone for several years before being joined by his eldest son, Joseph Goldie, (1882-1953). He did not seek admittance to the RIBA until 1904 when he was elected a Fellow on 6 June of that year, proposed by S B Russell, T E Cooper, and A W S Cross.

Among  buildings  to  his  designing are:  St  James's  Church,  Spanish  Place;  Hospital  of  St  John and  St  Elizabeth,  St  John's  Wood; Hayward's  Heath  Priory;  Storrington  Priory;  Convent  of Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor,  Stoke  Newington;  St  Alban's, Blackburn;  St  George's  Retreat,  Burgess  Hill; Our Lady  of  Victories'  Boys  Schools,  Kensington,  Hawkesyard Priory, Armitage, Staffordshire, built for the Dominican Order 1896–1914, and the church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea, built in 1895.

On 21 July 1880 Edward Goldie was married by the Very Rev. Mongr. Goldie at Fresnay-sur-Mer, Calvados, France to Nathalie Elizabeth Aglae Joachime, fourth daughter of Alexander C. Devaux, They had at least 14 children, as listed in 1901 census. [Times 28 July 1880 page 1]

Edward Goldie does not appear in the RIBA Kalendar of 1920-21 and is assumed to have retired by this date. Edward Marie Joseph de Kersabiec Goldie died on 10 October 1921 at St Servan France, and was buried at St Joaun des Guerets, St Servan.

Address:
1880             9-10 Kensington Square, Kensington, London W,
1904-1921    31 Upper Philimore Place, Kensington
1915-1919    155 Kensington High Street, London W (RIBA Kalendar)

Residence
1891            12 Argyl Road
1900-1909    28 Nevern Square, Earl’s Court
1911-1912    Richford Street

Obituary        Builder vll, 25 Nov 1921, p706
Obituary        RIBA Journal v29, 1922, p24
Reference      Gray Edwardian Architecture page 196
Reference      Pike London page 251 with portrait