Cranfield, Sydney White 1869 - 1861

Sydney White Cranfield was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England on 30 May 1869 and was articled to Enoch Bassett Keeling (1837-1886) in 1886.  Following Keeling's death later that year, he completed his articles with Wilfred John Hardcastle (1854-1930) from 1886 to 1891. He then worked as an assistant to Edward William Mountford (1855-1908) in 1891.  He also attended the Architectural Association Schools in London.  

Cranfield qualified as an architect in 1892 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) later that year.  He subsequently practised as an architect in London and designed private houses and business premises in London and the Home Counties.  He was the co-author, with Henry Ingle Potter, of Houses For The Working Classes In Urban Districts (1900; revised as Houses for the Working Classes, 1904)

In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA).  He retired from practice in 1937.

His address was given as 17 Buckingham Street, Strand, London in 1892; 31 Great James Street, Buckingham Row, London in 1899; 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London in 1903 and v1904; 14 South Square, Grays Inn, London in 1914; 12 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London in 1926; 7 Bedford Square, London in 1930; 29 George Street, London in 1934; "The Orchards", Boughton, near Faversham, Kent in 1939; and The Old Vicarage, Hernhill, Kent in 1961.  He died in Hernhill, near Faversham, Kent on 9 January 1961.