Thomas Phillips Figgis [also known as T.P. Figgis] was born in Ireland in 1858 and was articled to Alfred Gresham Jones (1822-1915) in Dublin. He then worked in the offices in London of Arthur Edmund Street (1855-1938) in 1881, and John Belcher (1841-1913) from 1882 to 1885. He also attended the Royal Academy Schools in London.
He qualified as an architect in 1888 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British architects the following year. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1900.
Figgis commenced independent practice as an architect in London in 1880 [or 1885 - sources differ]. He was associated with Herbert George Ibberson (1866-1935), Arthur Needham Wilson (1863-1942), Alan Edward Mumby (1870-1938), and Henry Wilson (1864-1938), and was employed as Official Architectural Advisor to the Presbyterian Church of England. He died in Beckenham, Kent [now London] on 2 May 1948.
The Radium Institute, Portland Place, London; the Cassel Hospital for nervous disorders, Penshurst; St. John's Lodge, Regent's Park, conversion into the Sir John Ellerman Hospital for Officers; Epileptic Colony for Children, and Homes for discharged epileptic soldiers, Lingfield, Surrey; the Training Colony for Men, at Wallingford ; the Co-operative Holiday Association Homes at Peel (Isle of Man), Row, Scotland and Whitby (Yorks); St. Columbia's Chapel, Oxford; St. Ninian's Church, Golders Green; St. Aldan's Church, West Ealing. Mission halls: — St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington; Walham Green, W.; and Silvertown, London. The Vicat Cole Art School, Kensington; Studios, Hillsleigh Road, Campden Hill, W.; new Public Library, N. Kensington (Jointly with H. Wilson); additions to Thatched House Lodge, Richmond Park, for Sir Frederick Treves: medical superintendent's house and nurses home, Ancaster House, Richmond Park; 13 stations, City and South London Railway; Ave stations, London and South Western Hallway; various factories and warehouses; offices for Union Corporation, Ltd., Great Winchester Street, EC; houses at Bromley (Kent), Sundridge Park, Letchworth, and Hampstead Garden Cities, Croydon. Reigate, Addlngton Hills, Sevenoaks, Crowborough, Woking, Guildford, Harrow, Felixstowe, etc. Jointly with Alan E. Munby.: — Coopers' Co. School, Bow, London; new science schools at Manchester Grammar School; extensive additions to Woolwich and Borough Polytechnics; and to East Surrey Hospital, Redhill.
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