Roderick Hildegar Baxter

• Birth date            25 June 1871 at Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland
• Marriage              15 September 1898 to Ellen Wilson Harrison at Middleton-St George, Durham
• Death date          26 September 1946 at 97 Milnrow Road, Rochdale

Roderick Hildegar Baxter was born in 1871, the son of William Baxter and his wife Mary (Calder). He was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. He was articled to John Wallace in 1888 and attended the Edinburgh Architectural Association classes and Heriot Watt College. At the end of his articles in 1891 he went to Stockton on Tees as assistant to Henry Weatherill. In 1893 he moved to Rochdale as assistant to Smith & Cross, becoming Cross's partner in 1898 although the firm's name remained unchanged. He was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, his sole proposer being James Muir Calder. The office address at that date was Town Hall Chambers, South Parade, Rochdale, and by that time Baxter had competed in two national competitions, winning a bronze medal and the Queen's Prize. The practice consisted principally of schools, houses, mills and business premises. [DSA]

Publications:      'General and Historic Notes on Freemasonry', 1909

Address
Before 1911    Town Hall Chambers, South Parade, Rochdale, Lancashire

Residence
1911        99, Milnrow Road, Rochdale, Lancashire,
1923        97 Milnrow Road, Rochdale
1946        97 Milnrow Road, Rochdale (probate)