Herbert Hardy Wigglesworth was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1866. As a child he moved with his family to Scotland. He was articled to James Matthews (1820-1898) and Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (1848-1933) of Matthews & Mackenzie in Aberdeen from 1883 to 1888 and then worked as their assistant for four months. He then moved to London where he worked as an assistant to Ernest George (1839-1922) and Harold Ainsworth Peto (1954 -1933) of Ernest George & Peto from 1889 to 1892. He also attended the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 1890 he qualified as an architect and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1891. In early 1892 he spent three years in the USA during which time he worked as an assistant in the office of the New York architect George Browne Post (1837-1913).
In 1893, Wigglesworth commenced work as an independent architect in London, and later that year formed a partnership, Niven & Wigglesworth, with David Barclay Niven (1864-1942). In 1900 Harold Falkner (1875-1963) became a partner in the firm which was renamed Niven, Wigglesworth & Falkner. Although Falkner left the business in 1903, the title of the firm remained unchanged until 1909 when it reverted to Niven & Wigglesworth. The partnership was eventually dissolved in 1926. Thereafter, Wigglesworth practised alone in Farnham, Surrey. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1900. He died on 24 August 1949.
With David Barclay Niven: Lynch House, Clarendon Road, Sevenoaks, Kent (1893); Interior of Carisbrook Castle ship for the Castle Line (1895); Teith View, Doune, Perthshire (1895); Nethercliffe, Walton on Thames, Surrey (1895); 3 houses for J. G. Hardy, Walton on Thames, Surrey (1898); Hillington, Walton on Thames, Surrey (1899); Willingdon House, Station Avenue, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey (1899); Piper's Hill, Byfleet, Surrey (1900); British Sailors' Society Hostel, corner of Commercial Road and Beccles Street, Stepney, London (1901); 54 Harley Street, London (1904); Salvation Army hostel, Garford Street, Poplar, London (19050; Office building, 19-21 Hatton Garden, Holborn, London (1907); Ottershaw Park, Ottershaw, near Chertsey, Surrey (1910); Swedish Church, Harcourt Street, Marylebone, London (1910); Dunfold Lodge, Woring, Surrey (1914); and Hambro's Bank, 41 Bishopsgate, City of London (1926)
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