George Ashdown Audsley was born in Elgin, Scotland on 6 September 1838 and trained as an architect in the office of Alexander Reid (1816?-1897) and William Reid (1865-1906) in Elgin from c.1852 to c.1856. He then moved to Liverpool where he worked for John Weightman (1798-1883), the City Surveyor, and from c.1860 to 1863 was in partnership with John Cunningham (1799-1873) as Cunningham & Audsley.
In 1863 he established the architectural practice W. & G. Audsley [also known as Audsley & Audsley] with his older brother William James Audsley (1833-1907). The firm subsequently designed churches, synagogues and private houses in Liverpool and London.
In 1876 the two brothers were elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA).
In addition to their work as architects, the Audsley brothers wrote several of books on architecture, ornamentation, illumination and Japanese art, the first being Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting (1861).
George Ashdown Audsley was also an illustrator and designer of pipe organs. He was the author of 'The Art of Organ Building' (1905) and built a number of organs in England and the USA.
In the 1883 the Audsleys visited New York City, to where, in 1892 [or 1893 - sources differ] they relocated their practice. Over the next decade they designed office buildings, schools, churches and a library in New York and elsewhere in the USA.
William James Audsley died in 1907. George Ashdown Audesley died in Bloomfield, New Jersey on 21 June 1925.
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