Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher

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1913 – 2004

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Who was Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher?

Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, 4th Viscount Esher CBE was a British peer, architect and town-planner. He succeeded to his title on the death of his father in 1963.

Brett was born in Windsor, Berkshire, the son of Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, where he read history. He married Helena Christian Pike in 1935 and proceeded to the Architectural Association but left to learn from the traditionalist A. S. G. Butler and then, as a non-qualified partner of William and Aileen Tatton-Brown, he passed the RIBA external exams in the summer of 1939, winning the Ashpitel Prize.

He spent the Second World War mostly in Britain, training gunners in the Royal Artillery, until he went through France and Belgium to witness the surrender of Lübeck and Hamburg. In 1945, he stood as Liberal Candidate for Henley, coming third at the polls.

He formed a partnership with Kenneth Boyd to design new houses as Architect-Planner of Hatfield New Town and wrote the initial report of the Hatfield Development Corporation.

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Born
Jul 18, 1913
Also known as
  • Lionel Esher
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
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Died
Jul 9, 2004

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on July 23, 2013

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