Sir Harold Brakspear KCVO (10 March 1870 – 20 November 1934[1]) was an English restoration architect and archaeologist.[2]
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He restored a number of ancient and notable buildings, including[2] Bath Abbey, Windsor Castle, Brownston House in Devizes and St Cyriac's Church in Lacock.[3] He lived in Corsham, Wiltshire, close to his projects at Lacock Abbey,[4] Hazelbury Manor and Great Chalfield Manor.[2]
Brakspear was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1931 New Year Honours.[5] He was elected president of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society in 1932[6] and re-elected the next year,[7] his term ending in July 1934.[8]
In 1908 he married Lilian Somers of Halesowen, Worcestershire; they had a son and a daughter, Oswald and Mary.[1] Oswald was an architect who designed churches and parsonage houses.[9]
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