Ernest Walter Johnson

ERNEST WALTER JOHNSON, 14, Preston Road, Southport; son of the late Robert Johnson; born at Southport, January, 1853; educated at Sandringham School, Southport. Architect and surveyor; articled to the late J. Sidebotham, of Southport, afterwards, for some years, with Edward Salomons, architect, of Manchester; commenced on his own account about twenty five years ago in Southport; since then he has been architect to many of the principal buildings and institutes in the district, amongst them being the School of Art for the Corporation, in Lord Street; the London and Midland Bank, and the Albany Buildings, Lord Street, Southport; the Halifax and Huddersfield Branch Bank, Elland, Yorkshire; a mausoleum for Charles Scarisbrick, J.P., etc. ; a Freemason ; member of the Fermor Lodge, No. 1313 ; member and late President of the Southport Photographic Society. Married Grace, daughter of the late Thomas Sagar, of Burnley.

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