Ernest Paul Brander Musman [commonly known as Ernest Brander Musman; also known as E.B. Musman] was born in London, England in March 1888 and studied at the University of London. He subsequently practised as an architect in London
In the early 1920s was employed as an assistant in the Evening School of the University of London School of Architecture (University College, London). By the early 1930s he had begun to specialise in public house architecture and subsequently designed numerous pubs throughout the Greater London area and the Home Counties for Benskins of Watford. In 1936 he formed a partnership with his chief assistant, William Norman Worrall (1899-1950), as Musman & Worrall with an office at 7 Carteret Street, Westminster, London
Musman was a Donaldson Medallist in 1910-11. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1917 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1936. He lived in London and died on 6 March 1972
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