Basic Biographical Details Name: | Theodore Shealtiel Clerk | Designation: | | Born: | 4 September 1909 | Died: | | Bio Notes: | Theodore Shealtiel Clerk was born on 4 September 1909 in Lancashire. He trained in Edinburgh, attending the diploma course at the Edinburgh College of Art from October 1938 to June 1943. During Easter 1941 he went to Manchester on a vacation scholarship; in summer the same year he did measured work for the Scottish branch of the National Buildings Record; in summer 1942 he undertook housing survey work for the Department of Health for Scotland; and in summer 1943 he secured the Rutland Prize, enabling him to tour to the Building Research Station in Garston and the Forest Products Research Lab in Princes Risborough, as well as studying housing and town planning in London, Leeds, Liverpool and Coventry. He passed the intermediate exam in June 1941 and teh final exam in June 1943, and was admitted ARIBA on 1 October the latter year, his proposers being Frank Charles Mears, Leslie Grahame Thomson and John Ross McKay. His nomination papers indicate that he was then partway through a diploma in town planning that was due to be completed in 1944. He was also AMTPI.
He joined the Town and Country Planning Department in Accra, Gold Coast by 1946. He was still in a post there in 1953, though his address had changed. By 1960 he was the Chief Architect and Town Planner in the Tema Development Corporation. He was still in Tema in 1963. He is not listed in the Directory of 1970, suggesting remained abroad for the rest of his career and possibly died abroad. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | PO Box 114, Accra, Gold Coast | Business | 1946 * | | | | PO Box 310, Sekondi, Gold Coast | Business | 1953 | | West Africa | | PO Box 46, Tema, Ghana | Business | 1960 * | | | | PO Box 77, Tema, Ghana | Business | 1964 * | | Also at this address 1965-66 |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | RIBA | 1946 | The RIBA Kalendar 1946-1947 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | | | RIBA | 1954 | RIBA Kalendar 1953-54 | | | | | RIBA | 1961 | Kalendar 1960-61 | | | | | RIBA | 1964 | The RIBA Kalendar 1963-64 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | A no8277 (combined box 207) |
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