William Wallen Jr. (architect and surveyor)

William Wallen Junior (1817–1891) was an architect and surveyor in London. He is the son of William Wallen Sr. (1790–1873) also an architect and surveyor. The Wallen family was linked to British architecture during the 19th century.

For his architect father (1790–1873), see William Wallen Sr. (architect and surveyor)
For English architect (1807–1888), see William Wallen (architect)

Biography

William Wallen Junior became an architect and surveyor. Professionally, he remained William Wallen (Junior), no doubt to distinguish himself from his father and his cousin, William Wallen (1807–1888), a fellow architect in Huddersfield. William Jnr. was born in Hoxton and married Mary Ann Sydney (1828–1899) at Guildhall in 1848.[1] They produced four sons and one daughter.[2] William died in Greenwich aged 74 Years.[3]

Career

William (jnr) designed the first school in the Isle of Dogs. Millwall British School was built by James and Jonathan Coleman of Bermondsey in 1846–47.[4] He also designed a Lecture Hall for the Deptford Literary Institution. It was built by Joseph Lester in 1852.[5] William won an allegedly corrupt competition to design the Vestry Hall at the Greenwich Public Offices. The hall was built in 1876–77 by W. W. Allen.

William Wallen the younger of Lawrence Pountney Lane, in the City of London, Architect, Surveyor, Builder, Dealer and Chapman was declared bankrupt on 25 March 1854.[6] William (jnr) was again declared bankrupt on 29 September 1869, but an Order of Discharge was granted on 10 December 1869.[7] Francis Hodgson Nixon (1832–83) became a pupil of William (jnr) in 1846. By mutual consent, Nixon and Wallen annulled the indenture agreement in 1849.[8] Nixon moved to Australia to pursue a career in architecture before turning to journalism.

References
  1. Guildhall, St Andrew by the Wardrobe, Register of marriages, 1837 - 1852,
  2. England Censuses 1851 & 1861
  3. Greenwich, London Volume: 1d Page: 760
  4. 'Southern Millwall: The Mellish Estate in Southern Millwall', in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1994), pp. 480-489 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp480-489 [accessed 25 April 2015].
  5. MBO/PLANS/452
  6. London Gazette 28/03/1854 , 993.
  7. The London Gazette, 1 Oct 1869 & 14 July 1871, 3222.
  8. Rockhampton Bulletin 1881; Nixon’s Indenture Papers, available ancestry.com.
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