Edward Joseph, Hansom

• Date of birth       22 October 1842 at Smithford Street, Coventry, Warwickshire
• Marriage              20 May 1868 to Theresa Agnes Knapp at Clifton, Gloucestershire
• Date of death     27 May 1900 at Newcastle Infirmary
• Probate                Probate 30 July 1900 to Theresa Agnes Hansom, widow. Re-sworn July 1902

Edward Joseph Hansom was born at Coventry on 22 October 1842, the only son of the architect Charles Francis Hansom (1817-1888) and his wife Elizabeth (nee Muston). He was the nephew of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882) and the cousin of Henry John Hansom (1828-1904) and Joseph Stanislaus Hansom (1845-1931).

He attended Downside School before being articled to his father on 20 October 1859, and remained with him until January 1866.  During 1886 he worked in the London office of Alfred Waterhouse while studying at the Royal Academy and in 1867 he joined his father in partnership in Bath. This partnership was dissolved on 24 June 1871 at which time he moved to Newcastle where he joined Archibald Matthias Dunn (1832-1917) in partnership on 1 July of that year. This partnership continued until 1893 when Dunn retired.  Hansom was also in partnership with Dunn's son Archibald Manuel Dunn from 1887; and with William Ellison Fenwicke from 1894 until his death in 1900. Edward Joseph Hansom was elected ARIBA on 28 January 1867: proposed by A Waterhouse, J H Hirst, C F Hansom; and FRIBA on 3 January 1881: proposed by C F Hansom, A Waterhouse, R J Johnson.

Mr. Edward Joseph Hansom, F.R.I.B.A., the President of the Northern Architectural Association, is the only son of the late Mr. Charles Hansom, of Clifton, Bristol, under whom he studied his profession, and in the year 1867 became a partner with his father. At this time many important works were carried out—viz., the Clifton and Malvern Colleges, and the Kelly College at Tavistock; St. Paul's Church, Clifton; St. John's Church, South Parade, Bath; the Franciscan Convent, Woodchester, etc. In 1871 Mr. Hansom left Bristol to join (a former pupil of his father's) Mr. Archibald Dunn at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the firm of Dunn and Hansom have carried out some of the most important Roman Catholic buildings undertaken since that date. Among others, the new college buildings at Stonyhurst, also at Downside, in Somersetshire, where a monastery and church are partly built, on a scale which will someday cause it to rival its Mediaeval prototypes; St. Bede's College, Manchester, and the first Diocesan seminary erected in England, at Olton, near Birmingham, for the late Archbishop Ullathorne. Among churches in Newcastle and the neighbourhood are St. Michael's, Elswick, and the spire of St. Mary's Cathedral, the new Collegiate Church at Ushaw, Washington, Burnopfield, Monkwearmouth, etc.; St. Catherine's, Birmingham, and others at Harbome and West Bromwich; St. Mary's, Bath, and the new R.C. Church at Cambridge, now approaching completion. Many schools, presbyteries, &c, have been carried out; two for the Newcastle School Board. Last year they completed the new buildings (in Newcastle) of the "University of Durham College of Medicine." [Building News 28 February 1890 page 326]

Address
1866-1871    Clifton, Bristol, Avon, England
1871-1900    23 Eldon Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
1880-           2 Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, London SW (branch office)

Residence
1842        Coventry, Warwickshire
1851        Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol
1869        Bath, Somerset
1871        Clifton, Bristol
1871        Newcastle
1881        Kensington London
1890        Tynemouth
1900        5, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1900        7 Loraine Place Newcastle-upon-Tyne - probate