Frank Sidney Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, England in 1877 and practised as an architect in London from c.1900. Photographs of 'Walton Cottage' in Woking, and 'Silcote House' in South Ascot, designed by Chesterton are featured in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1907 (p.19).
In 1903 he designed 12-54 Hornton Street, a row of houses in London. Together with John Duke Coleridge (1879-1934), Chesterton was the architect of a number of private properties on Kensington High Street, London, in c1908. Chesterton was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA) and a Fellow of the Surveyors' Institution (FSI). Chesterton exhibited at the Royal Academy in London between 1903 and 1915.
His address is given as 51 Cheapside, London (1903) and 150 Cheapside, London (1914). Chesterton died on 11 November 1916 as a result of wounds received while on active service in France during World War One. He is buried at the war cemetery in Méaulte n the Somme department in Hauts-de-France.
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