Hugh Henry Scott Willey [also known as Hugh Henry Scott-Willey] was born in Bromley, Kent, England on 24 September 1885 and was articled to Herbert Read (?-1935) and Robert Falconer MacDonald (1862-1913) of Read & MacDonald from 1904 to 1906 during these years he attended classes at the Architectural Association in London. He then worked as an assistant to Edward Guy Dawber (1861-1938) from 1906 to 1908. He commenced independent practice in Westminster, London in 1908 and passed his qualifying exam the following year. He was briefly in partnership with Hugh Frederick Annesley, Michael Webster and Arthur Brassey Taylor in the architectural firm Scott Willey & Webster. The partnership was dissolved in July 1912.
Willey was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1910 and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1936. His address was given as 41 London Road, Sommerfield, Reigate, Surrey in 1910 and 1911; St Mary's Chambers, 160A, Strand, London in 1914; "Homewood," Couldson Lane, Chipstead, Surrey in 1914 and 1939; 2, Mitre Court Chambers, Temple, London in 1923 and 1926. He died in Chipstead, Surrey on 23 July 1970
Several large country houses, Including "Amersham Hill", High Wycombe, and "Hinton Oak", Tunbridge Wells; reconstruction of several old houses: "Cumberlands", Kenley, Surrey; "Wayside," Chipstead, Surrey; "The White House", St. Albans; lesser country houses at Chipstead, Barnet, Harpenden, and East Sheen. Designed the trophy erected in Whitehall by H.M. Government of Ontario in honour of King George V.'s coronation.
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 [Listed under Scott-Willey, Hugh Henry]