Salomons, Edward 1829 - 1906

Edward Salomons was born in London, England in 1829 [or 1828 - sources differ]. He moved with his family to Manchester, Lancashire in c.1838. He appears to have received much of his training in the Manchester office of the church architects Henry Bowman (1814-1883) and Joseph Stretch Crowther (1823-1893) where he worked as a draughtsman from c.1846; and in the office of the Scottish architect John Edgar Gregan (1813-1855) in Manchester, with whom he worked for a year in the early 1850s. During this period he also attended the Manchester School of Design.

Salomons was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1851 and commenced independent practice in Manchester the following year. He subsequently also practised in London, where, from 1870 he was in partnership with John Philpot Jones (c1830-1873), and from 1871 with William Henry Crossland (c.1834-1909). In 1875 Salomons formed a partnership, Salomons & Ely, with John Ely (1847?-1915) who had worked as an assistant at his Manchester office since 1873; and in 1877 he formed another partnership, Salomons & Wornum, with Ralph Selden Wornum (1847-1910), who had been employed as an assistant in his London office since 1873.  The partnership with Ely was dissolved in 1886 and that with Wornum in 1888.

Following the dissolution of his partnership with Wornum, Salomons formed a final partnership with the Manchester architect Alfred Steinthal (1859-1928) as Salomons & Steinthal which lasted until 1906.

Salomons was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1860 and was a member of the Manchester Society of Architects, being its President on two occasions.  His address was given as Plymouth Grove, Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester in 1841; 170 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Lancashire in 1881; and 1 Ireton Bank, Platt Lane, Manchester, Lancashire in  1901. He died at this address on 12 May 1906