George Hartley Goldsmith

• Birth date           April-May 1885 at Altrincham
• Christening         13 May 1885 at St John, Altrincham
• Marriage              Jan-March 1909 to Margaret Dalzell Hollywood at Fulham
• Died Death          28 August 1967

George Hartley Goldsmith was born in 1885 (birth registered April-May), at Altrincham, the son of Henry Goldsmith and his wife, Lucy Jane. He trained at the Manchester School of Art and Victoria University and was a pupil/assistant to James Horsfall, Roger Oldham and his father, Henry Goldsmith. In 1907 he passed the qualifying examination and was elected Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects and between 1907 and 1910 he was employed by Edwin Lutyens in London.  He commenced independent practice in Manchester 1910 in partnership with his father under the style Henry Goldsmith and Son. He enlisted at the outbreak of war in 1914 and by 1918 when he was awarded the Military Cross, held the rank of Temporary Captain.  On 27 May 1919 he was appointed Assistant Architect to the War Graves Commission, with the rank of Major, (a reference being provided by Edwin Lutyens), and designed some 67 military cemeteries and the Memorial to the Missing at La Ferté on the Marne. He left the Commission on the 31 July 1927, entering a brief partnership with Samuel Nathaniel Cooke, and Edward Cecil Davies, practising as Architects, at 44, Great Russell-street, London. This partnership was dissolved on 31 July 1928 after which he worked alone from the same address until at least 1936

George Hartley Goldsmith retired to Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay. He died on 28 August 1967.

ARIBA   1907 - RHOS-ON-SEA. SUCCESS - Mr G. Hartley Goldsmith, son of Mr Henry Goldsmith, architect, Manchester and Rhos, has successfully passed his final examination in connection with the Royal Institute of British Architects, held in London last week. [Welsh Coast Pioneer 4 July 1907 page 12] [Weekly News for Colwyn Bay 5 July 1907 page 14] 

FRIBA    February 1926 proposed by Paul Ogden, Sir Edwin L Lutyens RA, Albert J Thomas [Journal of the RIBA 15 February 1926 page 198] 

Partnership 1928      S N Cooke E G Davies G H Goldsmith [RIBA Kalendar] NOTICE  is  hereby  given,  that  the Partnership heretofore  subsisting  between us, the  under-signed, Samuel Nathaniel Cooke, Edward Cecil Davies  and  George  Hartley  Goldsmith, practising as  Architects, at  44, Great  Russell-street,  London, under  the  style  or  firm  of  COOKE  DAVIES  AND GOLDSMITH,  was dissolved  as  and  from  the  31^st day  of  July, 1928,  by  mutual consent, and that each  of the  said late partners  will as from the said date  continue  to  practice as  an  Architect  at the said  address  on his  own account  and  separate  and apart from the others.—Dated the 29th day  of August, 1928. SAM.  N.  COOKE. E. CECIL DAVIES. G. H.  GOLDSMITH. London Gazette

Address
1919-1927    Major George Hartley Goldsmith MC, Headquarters Imperial War Graves Commission Longuenesse, St Omer, Pas de Calais, France
1928-1936    Major George Hartley Goldsmith MC 44 Great Russel Street London WC 1

Residence
1911    16 Lansdowne Road, Withington, Mancester
1926    George Hartley Goldsmith ARIBA "Odstone" Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay
1967    Gwnfa, 101 Tan-y-Bryne Road, Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay (probate)