page_title: Ernest Newton
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Ernest Newton / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Flint House, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Designed by by Ernest Newton for F.N. Garrard. Now a national police rehabilitation centre. See http://www.flinthouse.co.uk/.
context_page_description: Ernest Newton RA FRIBA was an English architect and President of Royal Institute of British Architects.
context_section_description: He served his apprenticeship in the office of Richard Norman Shaw from 1873 to 1876, remaining for a further three years as an assistant before commencing private practice on his own account in London in February 1880. He was briefly in partnership with William West Neve around 1882.  In 1884, he was a founder member of the Art Workers Guild.  He developed a career designing one-off houses largely in Bromley and Bickley and later moving into 'high-profile' country home commissions across England.
  “He is one of the busiest architects in England and therefore represents the good principles of current thinking about the house in perhaps its most accessible form..." Hermann Muthesius The English House 1904.
  “His eminence as an architect of unexcelled skill in a class of work that constitutes England's chief or sole claim to supremacy – the capture and apt embodiment of the very spirit of the home..."  Obituary, Architect's Journal; 1 February 1922, p187.
  In the 1890s he acted as consulting architect to William Willett.  Newton was President of RIBA 1914–1917.  In 1918 he received the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. In 1919, he was elected a Royal Academician, and was appointed a CBE in 1920. His last piece of
  work was a war memorial at his former school at Uppingham.
caption: Flint House, Goring-on-Thames designed by Newton (1913)
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