Charles Trubshaw

• Born : April-June 1840
• Baptism : 4 June 1840 at Endon Staffordshire
• Married : Caroline Hill on 6 September 1870 at Oswestry, Shropshire
• Died :15 February 1914 at Derby

Charles Trubshaw was born in 1840, the son of Charles and his wife Anna Maria. Charles senior was a civil engineer and architect and surveyor to the County of Stafford. Charles Trubshaw was trained in his father’s office. He was elected an Associate of the RIBA on 6 February 1864 proposed by J L Randal, R K Penson and G T Robinson; and a Fellow on 6 November 1882, proposed by J K Randal, J H Sanders, and J B Maser. In 1908 he became a Retired Fellow of the RIBA.

From 1864 to 1874 he was on the engineering and architectural staff of the London and North Western Railway. Next he was Architect to the Northern Division of the Midland Railway from 1874 to 1884. On the death of John Holloway Sanders in 1884 he became Chief Architect to the Midland Railway, and held this position until his retirement. According to Biddle “Britain's Historical Railway Buildings” this occurred in 1910. Dixey states that he retired in 1906. Stations at Hellifield and Skipton together with the hotel and station at Bradford Forster Square were all Trubshaw’s work, while Leicester London Road Station is probably his best surviving work.

Charles Trubshaw died in Derby on 15 February 1917.

Address
1865-1868 Stafford, Staffordshire, England
1882 Midland Railway, Derby, Derbyshire

Residence
1861 : Castle Road Castle Church, Staffordshire,
1871 : Edgbaston, Worcestershire,
1881 : 3 Grove Terrace (Osmaston Road), Derby.
1891 : Ormaston Road Derby
1917 : 123 Ormaston Road Derby

Obituary:  Builder v112, 23 Feb 1917, p142;
Obituary: RIBA Journal v24, 1917, p129 

References
Charles Trubshaw: a Victorian railway architect. S. John Dixey. 65-8.
Avery Obit
Colvin (1993) p9 W2
RIBA Nomination papers: A v 3 p261 F v7p33