Arthur Reginald Groome
- Born 9 October 1873 Chorlton-cum Hardy
- Baptised October 1875 at Congregational Church, Old Trafford
- Married 6 June 1903 Marion (Nee Heywood) of Stretford at St Johns Church, Knutsford
- Died 3 December 1943
Arthur Reginald Groome was one of seven children born to Edward Groome, draper, and Lucy Ann (nee Grimshaw). He became a Student member of RIBA 1896 and was elected Associate RIBA in 1900. He commenced independent practice at 2 St Peter’s Square, Manchester in 1900 and worked in association with James Linsay Grant as joint architect for various competition designs, although there appears to have been no formal partnership.
In 1903 he moved to Hereford and joined with George Herbert Godsell in a short-lived partnership under the style of James Brooks, Son, Godsell And Groome. This partnership ended only months later, on 31 December 1903 after which he remained in Hereford carrying on business on his own account at Palace-chambers. Arthur Reginald Groome next entered into partnership with Edward James Bettington, carrying on business as architects, surveyors, and separately as manufactures under the name of “The Draught, Dust and Weather Excluder Company,” both partnerships being dissolved on 31 December 1910.
Address
1903 : Arthur R Groome, ARIBA AMSA, 2 St Peter's Square Manchester (Slater)
1903 : James Brooks, Son, Godsell and Groome, Palace chambers, Hereford, and 35, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C
1904 : Arthur R Groome, Palace Chambers, Hereford
1907-1910 Groome and Bettington Palace Chambers Hereford
1910-1919 : Arthur R Groome, Palace Chambers, Hereford
Residence
1891 The Downs, Altrincham
1903 “Lincombe.” Harrop Road, Hale, Altrincham
1922-1929 Ambleside. Tower Road, Hereford
1943 Four Gables Bobblestock Holmes Herefordshire