Samuel Whitfield Daukes

Daukes was born in London in 1811, the son of Samuel Whitfield Daukes, a businessman with coal mining and brewery interests, who bought Diglis House, Worcester in 1827. He was a pupil of J P Pritchett of York and practised in Gloucester, Cheltenham, and London. Major works include St. Peter, Cheltenham, Kingsbury, and Newport IOW. His most significant work in north-west England was the Congregational Church in Broughton Park, Salford.

A history of Gloucester states: “The leading local architects before 1850 were Thomas Fulljames, the county surveyor, and Samuel Whitfield Daukes. Daukes, a pupil of the York architect J.P. Pritchett, had an office in Gloucester by 1834 and obtained commissions for new commercial buildings. On his departure in the late 1840s his associate James Medland, another of Pritchett's pupils, continued the practice, at first with J.R. Hamilton who had been Daukes's partner from 1841.

In 1836, Daukes married Caroline Sarah White of Long Newnton (then Wiltshire, now Gloucestershire). A portrait of the Daukes and their five children by A. de Salomé was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853.

Samuel Whitfield Daukes died at Beckenham (Kent) in 1880. He was buried in the family vault in Highgate Cemetery.