Frederick Milton Harvey was born in Gorleston, Suffolk, England on 24 March 1876. He was articled to John Richard Cockrill (1849-1924) in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk from 1892 to 1895 and remained with him as his assistant from 1895 to c.1897. In 1897 he was appointed Chief Assistant in Yarmouth Corporation and in 1905 became the Assistant Borough Engineer at Yarmouth Corporation. By 1911 he was Deputy Borough Surveyor at Yarmouth Corporation. By 1919 he had moved to Nottingham where he worked in the Housing Commissioner's Office. In c.1926 he moved to London where he established a practice in Covent Garden. During the mid-1930s he was in partnership with Verner Owen Rees (1886-1966) as Rees & Harvey.
Harvey was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British architects (ARIBA) in 1901 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1939.
His address was given as 98 High Street, Gorleston, Suffolk in 1891; Municipal Buildings, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in 1901; 48, Lowestoft Road, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in 1901 and 1915; Housing Commissioner's Office, Region F., Nottingham in 1919 and 1920; c/o Housing Division, Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London, and 8 Regent Street, Nottingham in 1924; 8, Broad Court Chambers, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London in 1926 and 1930; 3 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, London in 1933 and 1940; 12 The Quadrangle, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire in 1940; and 59 Valley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk in 1955. He died in Gorleston, Suffolk on 26 March 1969
Harvey was architect to the Tachbrook Housing Estate in Pimlico, London from 1932 to 1954 and designed all the blocks on the estate. He also designed the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre on the estate and the City of Westminster Day Nursery
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘Obituary’. Building vol. 216, 25 April 1969 pp. 17, 86