Award of Merit in 1998. By about 2015, the firm had ceased activity. Key architects Leslie M Perrott Senior (1892–1976) Leslie Marsh Perrott Senior was born in Gippsland, and moved with his family to Melbourne after the death of his father, and studied architecture at the Melbourne Technical College. In 1914, Perrott established his own practice which specialized in the use of concrete for houses. The practice flourished, later focusing on hotels, and Perrott was chosen by well-known pub owner Jimmy Richardson to accompany him on a fact finding tour of the United States in 1926 and then design his 'one extravagance', the Hotel Alexander, where Richardson lived in a penthouse on the top floor. In 1925, having spent time in the United States, he married San Franciscan Marion Buell in 1924, and they settled in the new concrete house in Brighton. He championed concrete for houses, publishing an article in 1924 featuring his own home and then a whole book on the subject in 1925 titled Concrete Homes. During the Great Depression, he became the president of the Building Industry Congress. He also was an active member in RVIA, admitted in 1920, becoming an associate in 1928, then elected vice-president in 1935, and president in 1939. In 1955, he was awarded the Barrett Memorial Medal for his contribution in town planning. Perrott retired in 1966 and the firm continued without changing name, since his son, now running the practice, was also named Leslie M Perrott. Ronald Grant Lyon (1920–2006) Ronald Lyon, known as 'Tiger', was born in Creswick but his family soon moved to Geelong. Ronald and his elder brother Eric were educated at the Geelong Junior Technical School (taught by their father, a respected chemistry teacher), Geelong High School and the Gordon Institute. The final years of the Gordon course merged with the Architectural Atelier, a night school at the University of Melbourne, and both Ron and Eric graduated as architects. In the late 1930s, Lyon commuted to Melbourne to work in the offices of two great Modernists: Edward Billson and Frederick Romberg. In 1941, before completing his course, he enlisted in the AIF and served as a lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in New Guinea. He obtained registration and became a member of the RVIA after returning from the war. In 1949, he worked for Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew in London. On his return in