Arthur Henry Walsingham

• Birth date:           1862 
• Married                15 October 1890 to Emily Roberts at St Clements, Longsigh
• Death date:        18 January 1935 at his residence, Gogarth Villa, Monton Green

Arthur Henry Walsingham was born in 1862 at Corby, Lincolnshire the son of Edwin Walsingham, builder, and his wife Elizabeth and was originally trained as a joiner. Before 1890 he had moved to Manchester where he commenced training as an architect, attending the Manchester School of Art.

His association with the architect Frederic Smith, also originally of Corby, appears to have dated from the 1880s, Smith being  a witness at his marriage in 1890. In 1900 he joined in partnership with Frederic Smith senior and his son as Smith, Walsingham and Smith architects. This partnership ceased in 1904 after which Walsingham commenced independent practice. Most of his commission were for various Co-operative Societies, principally Pendleton Co-operative Industrial Society Limited, Failsworth Industrial Society Limited, and Beswick Co-operative Society Limited. In later years he appears to have employed his son who continued the practice after his father’s death.

On 15 October 1890 he married Emily the daughter of Henry Edward Roberts at St Clement’s, Church, Longsight. They went on to have four children all born at Monton - Ina Marjorie Walsingham. Arthur R Walsingham (qv) Doris Eileen Walsingham and Alan Veric Walsingham               

Arthur Henry Walsingham died on 18 January 1935 at Gogarth Villa, Monton Green in his 73rd year.With his wife, Walsingham is buried in the graveyard of the nearby Monton Unitarian Church, the grave being situated close to the path by the south aisle approximately midway along. Inscriptions refer also to his four children. Note that his partner Frederic Smith is also buried in the same churchyard.

Death notice    Manchester Guardian Saturday 19 January 1935 Page 7 Column 7. Deaths
Obituary         RIBA Journal 27 April 1935 page 739

Address
1899    Smith Walsingham & Smith, architects and surveyors. 62, Market Street (Slater’s Directory)
1904    Smith Walsingham & Smith, architects and surveyors. 62, Market Street (Slater’s Directory)
1908    Arthur H Walsingham 62, Market Street (Slater’s Directory)
1935    Arthur H Walsingham 62, Market Street (Slater’s Directory)

Residence
1881    Church Street, Corby, Lincolnshire (Census)
1890    86 South Street, Longsight.
1901    35, Pine Grove, Monton (Slater's Directory)
1910    35, Pine Grove, Monton (Slater's Directory)

1913    "Dunclana", 4, Egerton Road, Monton (Slater's Directory)
1917    "Dunclana", 4, Egerton Road, Monton (Slater's Directory)
1918    "Gogarth Villa", Monton Green, Monton 1913 (Slater's Directory)
1935    "Gogarth Villa", Monton Green, Monton 1913 (Slater's Directory)

Houses on Monton Green as listed in Slater's - Church, South View, Ivy Lawn, Golgarth Villa, Thorn Bank, Athol House. The house is still existent one of a pair of substantial red brick houses with date-stone 1905 and must have backed on to that of his to that of his former partner Frederic Smith.