Stephen James Bridges Stanton [also known as S.J.B. Stanton] was born in Kensington, London, England on 6 November 1877 [1878 or 1879 - sources differ]. He was articled to John James Stevenson (1831-1908) and Harry Redfern (1861-1950) of Stevenson & Redfern from 1892 to 1896 and remained with them as an assistant until c.1911. He then worked as an assistant to Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863-1953) and Edwin Alfred Rickards (1872-1920) of Lanchester & Rickards; to Leonards Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858-1925); to Tobert Weir Schultz (1860-1951); to William Thomas Mynors Walker (1856-1930); and to Francis William Troup (1859-1941).
Stanton qualified as an architect in 1913 and subsequently practised in London. He was Architect to King's College, London, and Surveyor to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1914 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1938. He was also elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1913 and was Master of the Guild in 1947. During World War One he served in the Artists' Rifles.
His address was given as 14 Gray's Inn Square, London in 1914; and 47 Cavendish Road, Brondesbury, London in 1914 and 1926; and 10 Essex Street, Strand, London in 1930 and 1939. He died in London on 22 March 1951.
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