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Thomas, Sir Alfred Brumwell
(b London, 1868; d Virginia Water, Surrey, 22 January 1948). English architect. Son of Edward Thomas, a district surveyor working in Southwark, he grew up in the world of building. While he was an articled clerk, he studied at Westminster Art School and the Architectural Association, where he may have heard J. M. Brydon lecturing on the ideology of the Baroque style of Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor as being still appropriate for the heart of the great British Empire. Thomas started his own practice c. 1894, inventing a middle name Brumwell to distinguish him from others called Alfred Thomas. His early work includes the Huddersfield Sanitorium (1894–7), Mill Hill, and the West of England Eye Infirmary (1895–7), Magdalen Street, Exeter.
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