Quentin Mangnall Bluhm

• Born : July-Sept 1882 at Kersal, Salford
• Married :  5 September 1923 Gladys Edith, only daughter of Rev J. Hadfiend Wolfenden
• Died       24 June 1955 at Southport

The eldest son of Quentin Theodore Bluhm, stocks and shares broker, and his wife Helen, the daughter of Fenton Mangnall and niece of the architect William Mangnall (I). Quentin Mangnall Bluhm was born at Kersal Salford in 1882. He was articled to Edward Hewitt of Brazennose Street Manchester and may have remained as assistant. On his father’s retirement the family moved from Broughton to St Anne’s -on-the-Sea where Q Mangnall Bluhm commenced independent practice, later opening a second office in Preston.  FRIBA 1920 ARIBA 1910. President of the Preston Blackburn and District Society of Architects

 He was a member of the 5th (Ardwick) Volunteer Battalion, The Manchester Regiment being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 7 April 1907; Lieutenant, 1 April 1908; and Captain on 27 April 1912. He served as a Captain in the 1/8th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment in World War I and was wounded at Gallipoli on 7 June 1915. Promoted Major, he was awarded Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1920.

 On 5 September 1923 at St. Thomas’s Church, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea, Major Quentin Mangnall Bluhm DSO FRIBA married  Gladys Edith, only daughter of the late Rev J. Hadfiend Wolfenden, Vicar of St. Michael’s Blackburn and Mrs Wolfenden, of  St. Anne’s. [The Times, Saturday, 8 September 1923; pg.1]

Quentin Mangnall Bluhm died on 24 June 1955 at 643 Liverpool Road Ainsdale Southport.

Address
1908    Q Mangnall Bluhm City Bank Chambers, St. Anne’s Road West, St Anne’s
1913    Q Mangnall Bluhm City Bank Chambers, The Square, St Anne’s
1919    Victoria chambers Fishergate Preston
1921    Q Mangnall & Cyril Bluhm, Land agents, architects, “Whitecote,” Devonshire Rd, St. Anne’s
1922    Quentin Mangnall Bluhm DSO, FRIBA , 42 Wood Street, St. Anne’s and at Preston.
1924    Victoria chambers Fishergate Preston
1936    20 High Street Chorley

Residence
1891    “Lyndhurst,” Holden Street (now Road), Singleton Road, Broughton Park
1901    “Lyndhurst,”  Holden Street (now Road), Singleton Road, Broughton Park
1908    Glencoe 19 Victoria Road, St Anne’s on the sea
1911    “Whitecote,” Devonshire Road, St. Anne’s
1919    “Whitecote”34 Devonshire Road, St. Anne’s
1922    “Whitecote”34 Devonshire Road, St. Anne’s
1924    Q Mangnall Bluhm. Ayncott, Liverpool Road, Ainsdale, Southport
1930    Q Mangnall Bluhm. 705 Liverpool Road, Southport
1936    Q Mangnall Bluhm. Ayncott, Liverpool Road, Ainsdale, Southport
1955    643 Liverpool Road Ainsdale Southport.