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Wornum, (George) Grey
(b London, 17 April 1888; d New York, 11 June 1957). English architect. He studied at the Slade School of Art, London. He was then articled to his uncle Ralph Selden Wornum, and he attended classes at the Architectural Association. His first work was a studio (1910) for Hugh Goldwin Riviere (1869–1956). During service in World War I he lost his right eye (1916). He resumed his career in 1919, first with Philip D. Hepworth (1888–1963) and then from c. 1921 to 1930 with Louis de Soissons, their works including a water garden (1920), Hayling Island, Hants, and several of the Douglas Haig Memorial homes. In 1932 he won the competition for new headquarters for the Royal Institute of British Architects at 66 Portland Place, London. His design, which owed much to contemporary Swedish neo-classicism, was a stylish compromise between classical formalism and incipient modernism. Its symbolic sculpture and wide range of applied decoration make it one of the most interesting surviving interiors of the 1930s.
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