Edward Albert Jollye was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England in 1865 and was articled to Alfred Frampton (1852-1927) in London from 1882 to 1886. He also attended classes at the Architectural Association in London from 1883, and Birkbeck Institution and Polytechnic in London. He gained additional experience working in the offices of Nathan Solomon Joseph (1834?-1909) and Charles James Smithem (1857?-1934) from December 1885; Henry Whiteman Rising (1857-1936); Francis Redfern (1838?-?) and Albert Edwin Sawday (1851?-1923) in Leicester; and Robert Argyle in Ripley, Derbyshire.
Jollye qualified as an architect in 1888 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) later that year. He commenced independent practice as an architect in Donington, Lincolnshire, in 1900. By 1911 he had relocated his practice to London. He died in Bognor Regis, Sussex on 18 November 1935
House, Apsley, Hertfordshire, for Drs. Jollye and Holtzmann; restoration of St. Mary and Holy Rood Church, Donington, Lincs; alterations to Browntoft House, Donington, for A. Granville Fletcher, Esq.: Pinchbeck War memorial; farmstead and agricultural buildings, Quadring; stabling, Gosberton, Lincs, for Dr. Davison; garage, etc., Quadring, near Spalding; alterations to grammar school, Donington, for the Cowley Trustees; shop premises, Ripley, Derbyshire, farm buildings and cottages, Sempringham Fan (Lincs), for Ed. Smith, J.P.; alterations and additions to Komani House, Donington, for W. S. Royce, M.P.; additions to houses at Gosberton (Lincs), and Ropsley, Hampshire.
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