Frederick Jardine Barnish was born in Wigan, Lancashire, England on 23 January 1879 and and studied at Liverpool School of Architecture in Liverpool, England. He subsequently worked as an architect in Warrington, Cheshire. His architectural projects included cottages at Port Sunlight, and at Thornton Hough; and, during the 1920s, various war memorials, including, with George Tyson Smith (1883-1972) for Southport, Lancashire (1919-23), Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire (c.1921) and Frodsham, Cheshire (c.1921).
Barnish was a Member of the Architectural Association (MAA) and a Fellow of Liverpool Architectural Society.
His address was given as 43 King Street, Wigan, Lancashire in 1881; Appleton Cross, Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire in 1911; Golden Square, Warrington, Cheshire in 1923 and 1926; and from 1939 at Hatton Cottage in Appleton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England where he died on 3 November 1950.
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