John Fletcher Trew [also known as John F. Trew] was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England in 1856 and was the son of John Wall Trew (1824–1895), a surveyor. He was articled to John Henry Hirst (1825?-1882) in Bristol and commenced practice in Bristol in 1877. He relocated his practice to Gloucester in 1883. From 1912 he was in partnership with is son, Harold Fletcher Trew (1888-1968). In 1884 he was elected a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA). He was also a Fellow of the Gloucester Architectural Association. His address was given as County Chambers, Station Road, Gloucester in 1896 and 1914, and Lynton Lawn, Kingsholm, Gloucester in 1914. He died in Gloucester in 1917.
Gloucester Public Baths; Gloucester Liberal Club; Brunswick Lecture Hall and Sunday Schools, Bristol; Derby Road Council Schools; Archdeacon Street Council School, Gloucester: Dursley Church School Infants' School extension; Lecture Hall and Sunday Schools, Southgate, Gloucester : Wesleyan Church and Schools, Churchdown; rebuilding of Painswich Tabernacle and Mitcheldean Tabernacle; the "Towers", Dursley, for Sir Ashton Lister; Listers' Works and Offices at Dursley; drainage for Parishes of Barnwood, Wotton Hucclecote, now known as the North End drainage district; Longford Drainage, Gloucester; Wickwar Drainage; Water Supply for Lydney and for Ledbury Park, near Chepstow.
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