Antoine William Roques

• Born :     18 November 1867 at Edinburgh 
• Marriage  1897 Ada Spicer St Pancras London
• Died        February 1940

Antoine William Roques was born in Edinburgh on 18 November 1867 and was articled to David Robertson in 1884. At the end of his apprenticeship, in 1887, he obtained a place in Rowland Anderson's office. He moved to London in 1888, obtaining employment in the office of Frederick Thomas Pilkington, with whom he remained for three years. Thereafter he spent one year with Rowland Plumbe and two with Robert Clarke Edwards.

He commenced independent practice in London in 1894, probably at 10 Basinghall Street which was his office by 1899 and where he remained until at least 1911. By 1914 he appears to have been practising at Burgess Hill, Sussex, with a branch office at 16 George Street, Edinburgh. He served in the Royal Marines for two years during the First World War.

He was admitted LRIBA on 27 February 1911, his proposers being Charles Edward Hutchinson (from Plumbe's office), Alfred William Stephens Cross and Edward Harding Payne. He was elected Fellow of the RIBA in 1927, his proposers being Edwards, Giles Gilbert Scott and Banister Flight Fletcher.

Address    
1899-1911   10, Basinghall Street, London,
1914            Burgess Hill, Sussex, England    
1914            16, George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland (branch office)    
1922-1924    27 Queen Victoria Street EC4    
1927            63, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC,
1929-1936    7 Leadenhall Street London EC3

Residence
1901             Lissenden Gardens Gospel Oak, Kentish Town London NW5
1911-1919    2, The Hawthornes, (Hawthorne Dene?) Church End, Finchley, London (RIBA Kalendar)
1927            12a, Eaton Road, Hampstead, London NW,