Harry Bryant Newbold [commonly known as H. Bryant Newbold] was born in the Retfotd, Nottinghamshire, England on 16 March 1883. He worked as an architect and designer in England from c.1905 onwards. A garden seat and shelter designed by Newbold was illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1907 (p.186). Between 1912 and 1914 Newbold lived in Canada, where he designed a number of houses in the British Arts and Crafts style for the British Canadian Home Builders Limited.
Newbold was a member of the Council of the Society of Architects and editor of the National Builder and author of a number of books on architecture and house construction. He was admitted elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1925. He died on 20 December 1952. His death was registered in Maidstone, Kent
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‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 184, 13 February 1953 p. 264