Edmund Sharpe, and they had five children. The family lived in a house called The Knoll in Westbourne Road, Lancaster, which Austin had designed. He took little part in the civic life of the town other than being a Commissioner of Land Tax in 1886. Outside the practice, his main interests were music, painting and sketching; he was a member of the local orchestral and choral societies. In religion, he was an Anglican, attending the town's parish church, Lancaster Priory, where he undertook the duties of vicar's warden for seven years and later being a sidesman. In addition to The Knoll, he owned Heversham House in Cumbria and Kingsworthy Court in Hampshire. Austin died at home in The Knoll in 1915. See also Sharpe, Paley and Austin List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin List of non-ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin References Notes Bibliography 1841 births 1915 deaths People from the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees People from Lancaster, Lancashire 19th-century English architects Gothic Revival architects English ecclesiastical architects Architects from Lancashire