Frederick C. Uren [also known as Frederick Charles Uren*, and as Frederick Candy Uren] was born in 1872, probably in or near Penzance, Cornwall, England. He was educated in Penzance and studied at Penzance School of Art in 1887. From 1887 to 1893 he was employed as an assistant to G. H. Small, the Penzance Borough Surveyor. He also worked as an assistant in the Architects' Department of Worthing Corporation from 1893 to 1895; to Henry White (?-1922); to Oliver Caldwell (?-1910); and in the Architects' Department of Oxford Corporation from 1897 to 1900.
He commenced independent practice as an architect, surveyor and civil engineer in 1900. He was subsequently Surveyor to Finchley Urban District Council, Consulting Engineer to St. Austell and St. Just Rural Councils, and Dauntsey Water Co.; Borough Surveyor in St Ives. He was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911 and was a Member of the Institute Civil Engineers.
Uren's address was given as 88 St. Michael's Road, Aldershot, Hampshire and Municipal Buildings, Aldershot in 1914; St. Ives, Cornwall and 39, Victoria Street. Westminster, London in 1923 and 1926. By the late 1920s he had moved to Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire where he worked in the Borough Surveyors' Office until 1934. He died in Plymouth, Devon on 3 October 1939
* His middle name is given as Charles in the England Census for 1911, however, it is given as Candy in the three editions of Who's Who in Architecture - 1914, 1923 and 1926. In other Census returns his name is given as Frederick C. Uren.
Architectural: — Elementary Schools, Aldershot; Hospitals at Camberley and Aldershot: Mission Room and Church of St. Alban, Aldershot; bank premises at St. Ives, Newquay, Falmouth, Wadebridge, and Redruth.; semi-detached houses, farm buildings, and lodges, Oxford.
Civil Engineering: — Water supply at Kingswood, St. Just, Dauntsey, Worthing, Oxford; Penzance, and St. Austell. Sewerage Works: — At Worthing, Oxford, Camberley, Aldershot, St Just, St. Ives, St. Blazey, Tywardreath, Mevagissey, Pentewan, Roche, and Foxhole.
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