Almeric William Silvester Coxhead [commonly known as Almeric Coxhead], and as Almeric W. Coxhead] was born in Westcott, Surrey, England on 5 June 1862 and was baptised on 13 July 1862. In the 1881 England Census his occupation was given as "Builders Clerk". He was employed in Eastbourne, Sussex.
In 1886, with his brother, Ernest Albert Coxhead (1863-1933) he emigrated to the USA and settled in Los Angeles where by January 1887 they had established an architectural office. The practice relocated to San Francisco in 1890 where it remained until the brothers retired. Initially they practised as Ernest A. Coxhead, however, by 1891 the firm was known as Coxhead & Coxhead. Almeric Coxhead died in 1928.
* See the Pacific Coast Architecture Database for the complicated details of where he was born.
Ernest Albert Coxhead was the senior partner in Coxhead & Coxhead and appears to have been responsible for much if not most of the work produced by the practice. This included at least six Episcopal churches in California between 1888 and 1913; the 1st English Lutheran Church in Downtown, Los Angeles (1888); the 1st Congregational Church no.3 in Los Angeles (1889); Sturgis House in Los Angeles (1889-90); the Sturgis House in Los Angeles (1889-90); an apartment house in Alamo Square, San Francisco, for Irving Scott (1890); Bixby Ranch House in Long Beach, California (1890); Chapel of the Holy Innocents, in San Francisco (1890); a house in Berkely, California for W. E. Chamberlain (1892); house in San Anselmo, California for Andrew Carrigan, Sr., and Eliza G. Harris (1892); a house in San Francisco for George Whittell (1893) the Graduate School of Public Policy in Berkely, California (1893); a house designed for themselves in San Mateo, California by Ernest and Almeric Coxhead (1893); the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House no.1 in Northside, Berkeley, California (1893-94); a house in Los Angeles for Edwin T. Earl (1897-98); Spanish–American War Soldier's Monument in Portland, Oregon (1906); a house in San Francisco for Bruce Parker (1903-04); the Continental Hotel in San Francisco (1906); and Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Building in San Francisco (1908). Coxhead & Coxhead also designed numerous other private residences in the San Francisco Bay Area.