Drake, Lindsey Alexander Thompson Webster 1909 - 1980

Lindsey Alexander Thompson Webster Drake [also known as Lindsey Alexander Thomson Webster Drake [1], as Lindsey Alexander Drake, as Lindsey Drake, and as L.A.T.W. Drake] was born in Brockley, London on 8 December 1909 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London.

In 1932, with Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990), Godfrey Samuel (1904-1982), Valentine Harding (1905-1940), Anthony Merlott Chitty (1907-1976), Michael Dugdale (1905-1970),  and Francis Skinner (1908-1998), he formed the architectural partnership Tecton.

In 1949 Drake formed a partnership with Denys Lasdun (1914-2001) as L. Drake & D. Lasdun (Drake & Lusdun). In 1951 Edwin Maxwell Fry (1914-2001) and Jane Drew (1911-1996) joined the partnership which was renamed Fry Drew Drake & Lasdun. The partnership was dissolved in 1958.

Drake was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1933.

His address was given as 18 Wickham Road, Brockley, London in 1911; 3 Bedford Place, Bloomsbury, London, and Tecton, 57 Haymarket, London in 1935 and 1939; 28. York Street, Marylebone, London in 1939; and 29 Sackville Street, London in 1950. He died on 30 June 1980. His death was registered in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire. His address at the time of his death was 17 Church End, Braughing, Ware, Hertfordshire
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[1] His name is given as Lindsey Alexander Thompson Webster Drake in the 1935 edition and later editions of Kalendar of The Royal Institute of British Architects, however, the probate record for him gives his name as Lindsey Alexander Thomson Webster Drake