Michael Vyne Treleaven was born in Poughill, Cornwall, England in 1850 and was articled to J. Keates, to Mark King, and to Arthur Causton. He commenced practice as an architect in south London in 1887. He relocated his practice to Beeston, near Nottingham in c.1890. By the early 1920s he had returned to Cornwall and in 1923 had an office in Bude, Cornwall.
Treleaven was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA) and in 1925 was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA). His address was given as "Baytree", Poughill in 1851; 11 Linden Grove, Beeston, Nottinghamshire in 1901; 228 Station Road Beeston Nottinghamshire in 1911 and 1914; 5, Flexbury Park, Bude, Cornwall in 1923; Stratton, North Cornwall in 1926; Whare, Crosthwaite Way, Burnham, Buckinghamshire in 1930; and "Craig-an-Tilly", Eastfield Road, Burnham, Buckinghamshire in 1933, He died in Windsor, Berkshire in 1934
Hotel at Southend; model dwellings and flats; City warehouses; laying-out of extensive estates; extensions to churches and licensed premises; designed many business premlses for Sir Jesse Boot at Winchester, York, Exeter, Cambridge, Kingstone, Aldershot, Peterborough, Bury St. Edmunds, Devizes, Watford, Gillingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and other towns. [Source; Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001