Guy Dawber

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Sir Edward Guy Dawber
Name	Sir Edward Guy Dawber
Nationality	English
Birth date	1861
Birth place	King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
Date of death	April 24, 1938
Place of death	London, England
Work
Significant buildings	Eyford Park
Significant projects	Batsford Park
Awards and prizes	RIBA Gold Medal, 1928, RA

Sir Edward Guy Dawber, RA, ARA (King's Lynn, 1861 - London, 1938) was an English architect working in the late Arts and Crafts style whose work is particularly associated with the Cotswolds.

Guy Dawber was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk in 1861, the son of John Stockdale Dawber (d. 1898) and his wife Lois Ellen (née Edwards). He trained in the practice of Sir Ernest George and Harold Peto, supervising their work on Batsford Park (1887-93), near Moreton-in-Marsh, in the Cotswolds. He became a respected and scholarly architect working in the Cotswold vernacular tradition, designing and converting a number of houses in the district, including Eyford Park (1911-12), and Nether Swell Manor (1903 and 1909), both near Stow-on-the-Wold. He designed St John's chapel of ease in Matlock Dale, Derbyshire, where he lived locally. He also specialised in laying out and designing gardens.

He was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1925 to 1927. He was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1928. He played a prominent part in establishing the Council for the Preservation of Rural England in 1926 and became its first President. He was knighted in 1936. He married Mary Eccles in Lancashire in 1896. He died in London on 24 April 1938 and is buried at St. Giles with his parents and brother.

He published Old Cottages Farm-houses, and other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District (Batsford, 1905). He also painted in watercolour.