DYER, Cyril Hamilton

Architect

LRIBA, Bloemfontein 1912

Worked in Bloemfontein from about 1900 until 1920; he was an Englishman, educated at St Olave's Grammar School, London and articled in London to Charles H Flack of Bedford Row. He settled in Bloemfontein in May 1900 and opened a practice there. He married Elizabeth Adelaide Angus (b.1878) on 24 Sept 1903. Their marriage certificate gives his profession as Architect and his address as Fickhardt St, Bloemfontein. Their son John Allan Hamilton Dyer was baptised in Bloemfontein on 10 July 1912.

In 1912 Dyer was elected a Licentiate member of the RIBA, his nomination papers stated he had been a principal for not less than ten years, the papers being witnessed by his then assistant, RH SHAW. Few buildings by him have so far been recorded, and those all before 1905. His career after 1912 is currently obscure. He died in Bloemfontein on 15 June 1920 and was buried in the Memoriam Rd Cemetery, Bloemfontein.

(AB&E Jul 1920:3 death notice; LRIBA nom papers (1912) 1903; RIBA biog file; RIBA Jnl 1920-2:78 death notice; SAWW 1910; www.familysearch.org)

All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.

List of projects

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With notes

Building for CW Champion: c1905. Bloemfontein, Free State - Architect

Building for Mrs Vickers: c1905. Bloemfontein, Free State - Architect

House Dr Bidwell: c1905. Bloemfontein, Free State - Architect

References

Brown, SM. 1969. Architects and others: an annotated list of people of South African interest appearing in the RIBA Journal 1880-1925. Johannesburg: Unpublished dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand. pp