Henry Victor Ashley was born in Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, England on 2 May 1872. He was articled to William Dunn (1859-1934) in 1889, and remained with him as his assistant. He was then assistant to Frank Thomas Baggallay (1855-1930); to John Belcher (1841-1913); to William Flockhart (1852-1913); to James Howard Ince; to James MacLaren; to Walter John Nash Millard ( (1854-1917); and to W.T. Walker.
Ashley commenced independent practice as an architect in 1896, and was in partnership with Francis Winton Newman (1878-1953) in the London-based architectural firm H.V. Ashley & Winton Newman from 1907 to at least the early 1930s. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1907. He died in London on 29 July 1945.
East London Waterworks Pumping Stations — Valve Towers, Bridges, &c.; Byfleet Village Hall; Houses In Kent, Middlesex, and elsewhere. In partnership as above: Birmingham Council House, first extension and second extension; extensions to Royal Free Hospital; houses at Hampstead, Beaconsfield, Welwyn, and elsewhere. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
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In partnership: — Council House and Art Galleries, Birmingham Corporation; bank and offices, 8-13, King William Street, for the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; bank and offices, 13 and 14, Austin Friars, for the British Trade Corporation; Housing Schemes for St. Pancras Borough Council, Watford E.C., and Marylebone E.C.; Out-Patients' Dept., Pathological Block, Nurses' Home, etc., at the Royal Free Hospital; Maternity Home, Nurses' Home, Out-Patients' Dept., at Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End; fruit and jam factory, Worcester; laboratories, library, etc, for the London School of Medicine for Women; houses at Hampstead, Beaconsfield, Bromley, Welwyn, and elsewhere; village hall, Byfleet; East London Waterworks. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
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