Henry Walter Simister

Henry Walter Simister LRIBA (1881 - 21 December 1958) was a 20th-century architect based in Birmingham.

History

He was born in 1881 in Staffordshire, the son of John Simmister (1855&ndash;1923) and Annie Harper (1854-1924).

He was articled to John Harry Woodall Hickton and Henry Edward Farmer of Walsall in 1898. He attended Birmingham School of Art. He was assistant to Herbert Tudor Buckland and Edward Haywood-Farmer.

In 1910 he started in independent practice in Birmingham in partnership with Edward Garratt (d. 1917). In 1911 he was appointed as LRIBA.

In 1905 he married Alice Emily Hill. This marriage produced the following children:

He died on 21 December 1958 and left an estate valued at £14,113.
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