Henry Milnthorpe Appleyard was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England on 5 May 1873 [or 1878 - sources differ *] and was articled to Arthur Haygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942), George Hornblower (1858-1940) and E. S. Walters of Mackmurdo, Hornblower & Walters in London from 1891. He then went to Edmund Kirby (1838-1920) as an improver for two years. He worked as an assistant to Charles Ernest Deacon (1844-1927) for a year; to Jonas James Bradshaw (1837-1912) and John Bradshaw Gass (1855-1939) of Bradshaw & Gass for two years; to John Joseph Talbot (1871-1902) and William Gilmour Wilson (1856-1943) for a year; in Liverpool City Architects' Department for three years; ; to Frank Gatley Briggs (1862-1921) and Henry Vernon Wolstenholme (1863-1936) of Briggs & Wolstenholme; and to Arnold Thornley (1870-1953) and Frederick Brice Hobbs (1862-1944) of Arnold Thornely & Hobbs.
Appleyard commenced independent practice as an architect in Liverpool in 1905 . By 1909 he had formed a partnership with Edgar Quiggin (1880-1950) as Appleyard & Quiggin. They had an office at 67 Lord Street, Liverpool. In 1909 Appleyard & Quiggin was selected 3rd place in a competition to design the Municipal Secondary School for Boys and Girls in Bury, Lancashire. Their entry is illustrated in British Competitions in Architecture vol. 2, no. 23, July 1909 (pp. 355-357).
Appleyard served as Advisory Architect the the Education Ministry, Government of Northern Ireland. He was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911.
His address was given as 41 Canning Street, Liverpool in 1901 and 1911; 67 Lord Street, Liverpool in 1911; 11 Village Road, Church End, Finchley, London in 1920; 34, Rock Park, Rock Ferry, Cheshire in 1923; Ministry of Finance, Works and Public Buildings, 113, Royal Avenue, Belfast in 1926; Ardmay Hotel, Woburn Place, London in 1930; and 68/69 Guilford Street, St Pancras, London in 1939. He died in London in 1941.
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* Appleyard's year of birth is given as 1873 by Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K; and c.1873 by the 1911 England Census, and the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007. However, Who's Who in Architecture 1923 and 1926 gives it as 1878, and the 1939 England and Wales Register specifically gives his date of birth as 5 May 1878. This is assumed to be incorrect and that his correct date of birth was 5 May 1873.
Mostyn House Preparatory School, Parkgate by Chester (alterations and additions); Residences: Gayton, Heswall, Cheshire; Parkgate, Cheshire. Engineering works (ship repairs), Liverpool. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1923