Henry Hakewill

English architect

John Henry Hakewill
Edward Hakewill

Parents

John Hakewill
Anna Maria Cook

Henry Hakewill (4 October 1771 – 13 March 1830) was an English architect.

Early life

Henry Hakewill was born on 4 October 1771 to English painter and decorator John Hakewill and Anna Maria Cook.^[1]

Hakewill was a pupil of John Yenn RA, and also studied at the Royal Academy, where in 1790 he was awarded a silver medal for a drawing of an aspect of Somerset House.^[2]

Career

Hakewill began work on a country mansion and eventually had a large and flourishing practice, mostly concerned with country houses. In 1809, he was appointed architect to Rugby School, where the gothic buildings and chapel are his designs.^[1] He also did work for the Radcliffe trustees at Oxford and the Middle Temple.

Hakewill designed two notable Greek Revival buildings. Coed Coch, Dolwen, Denbighshire, Wales, a country house with a diagonally-placed portico (now demolished) and stair, was completed in 1804. St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London was built in 1824–7. (It was rebuilt after a fire in 1987.)

Personal life

On 14 November 1804 Hakewill was married to Anne Sarah Frith, daughter of Rev. Edward Frith of North Cray, Kent. They had seven children including:

John Henry Hakewill (1810–1880), architect^[3]
Edward Charles Hakewill (1816–1872), architect^[4]

Publications

An account of the Roman villa discovered at Northleigh Oxfordshire in the years 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816. 1823.

References

^ ^a ^b "Hakewill, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Cynthia, Brown (1989). "The Hakewills – Credit where credit is due: The need for caution" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History. Vol. 37. pp. 45–54.
^ "Hakewill, John Henry". Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016.
^ "Hakewill, Edward Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016.