LINKLATER, MORTIMER HENRY

Architect, of Belfast and Manchester. Mortimer Linklater was born in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, circa 1842.(1) He became a pupil of CHARLES LANYON CHARLES LANYON (2) and may possibly have been working in the Dublin office of LANYON LYNN & LANYON  LANYON LYNN & LANYON when he was elected a student of the RIAI in 1864.(3) He is listed as a student of the institute in the membership list for 1866-7, where his address is given as 'care of C. Lanyon, Esq., Belfast', but was struck off on 30 October 1866.(4) In 1865 he submitted a design in the Belfast Albert Memorial Clock Tower competition, under the motto 'Bloody Hand' and was placed third.(5) By 1868 he was practising in Manchester,(6) where he remained until at least 1873.(7) He was ordained in the Church of England in 1877 and by 1881 had become curate of St Matthew's, Leicester. He continues to be listed in Crockford's Clerical Directory until circa 1901, when he was viHastings.

RIAI: elected student, 15 December 1864;(8) struck off, 30 October 1866.(9)
RIBA: elected associate, 19 January 1871, proposed by R. Kerr, C.F. Hayward and T. Roger Smith.

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All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the entry on Linklater in Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), II, 52

(1) Information from British census of 1881 in www.familysearch.org.
(2) The Directory states incorrectly that Linklater was a student of Lanyon's in the 1840s.
(3) RIAI council meeting minutes, 7 Dec 1864, 23; general meeting minutes, 15 Dec 1864, 152.
(4) RIAI council meeting minutes, 30 Oct 1866, 60.
(5) B 23, 24 Jun 1865, 447; 24, 19 May 1866, 374 (letter from Linklater about the competition).
(6) B 24, 25 Apr 1868, 297.
(7) B 31, 5 Apr 1873, 260.
(8) See note 3, above.
(9) See note 4, above.

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