Name

Thomas Reive

Designation
Architect
Born
1887
Place of Birth
Droylsden
Location
Bolton
Died
1970

  • Born     :  1887/8,
  • Married27 August 1938. Barbara Wilhelmina (Lena) Spark.
  • Died     :  18 March 1970

Thomas Reive was born at Droylsden in 1887-8, the son of James and Catherine Reive, Scottish Presbyterians who had moved to Manchester in the early 1880's. Of his education and training nothing is yet known, but he was assistant to the Bolton architects, Bradshaw and Gass when elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in November 1915.

His elder sister, Agnes Dickson Reive, had married the Rev Edward Band, MA, of the English Presbyterian Mission in Formosa and Thomas Reive also emigrated to the Far East, practising for some time in Rangoon, Burma (1920's-1930's?). His widowed mother is known to have died at Rangoon General Hospital in 1933 after which he appears to have returned to Manchester to set up practice at 19, Chapel Walks. His known English works are exclusively for the Presbyterian Trustees These include new churches at Plymouth, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and St Andrew’s, Heaton Moor where he was a member of the congregation.

On 29 August 1938 he married Barbara Wilhelmina, the youngest daughter of the Rev John Spark, at Inverness.

Thomas Reive died at his home, 55 Kendal Drive Gatley Cheshire, on March 18 1970 and was interred alongside his father at Prestbury Church