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MenuHomeUpfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon | KELLY, Stanley WilsonBorn: 1906 09 02Died: 1971 08 01 ArchitectSACA:Reg No: 1300 Year registered: 1951 | |
BArch (Liv), ARIBA (1931), ISAA, CPIA. Worked in Kenya longer than he worked in South Africa; he trained at the School of Architecture, Liverpool between 1924 and 1929, working in the vacation of 1927 with Grey & Evans, Liverpool. On graduating Kelly left immediately for Nairobi, Kenya joining the office of HOOGTERP and JACKSON where he remained for nine months before leaving for South Africa, going to Cape Town. In Cape Town he worked for FORSYTH and PARKER. He became an Associate member of the RIBA in 1931 while in Cape Town. His nomination papers were signed by GS Burt ANDREWS who said he had known Kelly from when Kelly was a schoolboy, possibly suggesting that Kelly had lived in South Africa before training at Liverpool. By 1939/1940 he was again working in Nairobi. In 1959 he is recorded as a salaried member of the CPIA in the employ of Barclays Bank DC+O of address Adderley Street, Cape Town, Cape Province. Kelly, a bachelor aged 51, married Magdalena Elizabeth du Preez (nee Warley), born 1910, in Cape Town on 21 Dec 1957. Their marriage certificate gives his date of birth as 12 Sept 1906, and his place of birth as Naauwpoort, Cape. [ARIBA nom papers (1931) 4611; RIBA Kala 1939/40; 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. References | ||