Robert Griggs

• Birth date            October-Dec 1845 at Chelmsford, Essex
• Christening          23 December 1845
• Death date          24 November 1915 at St. Thomas' Home Westminster
• Funeral               29 November 1915 at Golder's Green Crematorium 

Robert Griggs was born in Chelmsford, Essex, the son of Robert and Mary Griggs. He was a pupil of Henry Saxon Snell from 1866, and remained in his office as assistant, clerk of works, and manager, until 1874 when he commenced practice on his own account. By 1881 he was employing three men and a boy (Census).

Robert Griggs died on 24 November 1915. He never married

Robert Griggs [Associate, elected 1876] died on the 24th November at the age of seventy-one. Mr. Griggs was in the office of the late Mr. H. Saxon Snell from 1866 to 1874 as pupil, assistant, and manager, except for a period of two years during which he served as clerk of works on some of Mr. Snell’s large buildings. He had been architect and surveyor to the Berkeley Hotel Company since 1888, and carried out for them the additions made to the hotel, on the sites of Nos. 73-74 Piccadilly, with the alterations, etc., in Berkeley Street in 1896-97, and the further improvements effected three years ago. He was the architect for the renovation, with alterations and improvements, of Batt’s Hotel in Dover Street, Piccadilly, [RIBA Journal v23, 4 December 1915, page 56]

Address
1874-1915    3 and 11 Gray's Inn Square, Strand, London

Residence
1851        New Street, Chelmsford
1871        Romford
1874-1915    Gray’s Inn Square, Holborn

Obituary        RIBA Journal v23, 4 December 1915, page 56
Obituary        Builder vol 109 3 December 1915 page 413