Category:Charles Holden

**Charles Holden**
	English architect (1875-1960) Charles Holden, Benjamin Nelson, 1910.
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Name in native language	Charles Holden;
Date of birth	12 May 1875; Bolton
Date of death	1 May 1960; Welwyn
Cause of death	disease;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, –1927);
Residence	Bolton (1875–1884); St Helens (1884–1891); Bolton (1891–1897); London (1897–1898); Norbiton (1898–1902); Codicote (1902–1906); Welwyn (1906–1960);
Educated at	Manchester School of Art (1893–1894); University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1894–1896); Royal Academy of Arts (1900–1903);
Occupation	architect; urban planner;
Employer	Commonwealth War Graves Commission (1918–1928); University of London (1931–1937); Underground Electric Railways Company of London (1923–1933); London Passenger Transport Board (1933–1947);
Member of	Royal Institute of British Architects (vice president); Royal Town Planning Institute; Design and Industries Association; Art Workers' Guild; Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects;
Movement	Quakers;
Notable work	Senate House (1932–1937); Bristol Central Library (1902–1906); 55 Broadway (1927–1929); Arnos Grove tube station (1931–1932); Sudbury Town tube station (1930–1931); Embassy of Zimbabwe, London (1906–1908);
Award received	Royal Gold Medal (1936); Royal Designer for Industry (1943); honorary doctor of the University of Manchester (1936); honorary doctorate (1946); Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects;
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English: Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 - 1 May 1960) was an English architect best known for his designs of some of the 1920s and 1930s stations on the London Underground railway system, but who was already a distinguished architect before then, notably in his Imperial War Graves Commission war cemeteries in Belgium and northern France.