Samuel Beverley was born in Salford, Lancashire, England in 1896*. It is unclear with whom he trained as an architect. From 1922 he worked as an assistant to Francis Thomas Verity (1864-1937), whose daughter, Elinor Verity (1900-1984) he married in 1924. In 1930 he formed a partnership, with his father-in-law as F. T. Verity & S. Beverley. They were European advisory architects to the Paramount Cinematograph Company and to the Union Cinema Company.
Beverley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1931. Following the death of F. T. Verity in 1937 Beverley in 1937, Beverley continued to run the practice for some years with the title of the firm unchanged. He died in London on 26 April 1959.
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* Some sources give his place of birth as Australia, however, it is given as Salford, Lancashire in the 1911 England Census