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CUTLER, HENRY ALBERT
- Born: 1861 Died: 1952
City surveyor of Cork and Belfast. Henry Albert Cutler, the second son of James H. Cutler, wine merchant's clerk, of Victoria Street, South Hackney,(1) was born in South Hackney on 22 January 1861 and educated privately and at King's College, London. He spent the first two decades of his professional career in England, starting work in 1877 with a firm of contractors engaged on the Cinderford waterworks and the Chiswick sewage outfall. From 1879 until 1882 he was articled to A.T. Walmisley, engineer to the Dover Harbour Board, then spent four years as assistant to W.H. Fox, borough engineer of Barrow-on-Furness, before returning to Walmisley's office as chief assistant for a further two years. After a brief period on the staff of Joseph Gordon, borough engineer of Leicester, he was appointed borough engineer of Rawtenstall, where he remained for seven years and where he designed and built several public buildings. In 1896, he came first in a competitive examination for the city surveyorship of Cork, left vacant by the resignation of MICHAEL JOSEPH MCMULLEN . Cutler was honorary architect to the Cork International Exhibition of 1902 and designed all the exhibition buildings except the Canadian Pavilion, which was designed by ARTHUR HILL. (2) After a period of illness during the winter of 1902-3,(3) in September 1903 he was elected City Engineer of Belfast,(4) a post which he held until his retirement in 1926.
Cutler is described as popular and efficient in the execution of his duties. He was assessor in the Mullingar sewerage competition of 1908(5) and, with HENRY SEAVER , in the Belfast Corporation Health Committee's working class housing competition of 1913.(6) He died, aged ninety-one, on 6 March 1952 at Groomsport, Co. Down. According to the 1911 census, he had married to English wife, Frances Mabel, circa 1904 and had a son and a daughter. His pupils and assistants included JAMES BELL [3] , JOHN CAFFREY , ROBERT EDMUND LEAR CLARKE and JOHN JOSEPH MURPHY.
Inst.CE: won Millar prize for student paper on the stability of voussoir arches, 1886; associate member 7 December 1886; member 11 April 1905; council member 1925-7.
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References
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the biography of Cutler in IB 45, 24 Sep 1903, 2008, and from the obituary in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Part I, Vol. 1 (Jul 1952), 504.
(1) Census of England, 1861.
(2) IB 43, 8 May 1902, 1229.
(3) IB 45, 12 Feb 1903, 1588.
(4) IB 45, 10 Sep 1903, 1960; at the meeting in which Cutler was elected 'Councillor R. Thompson said the Lord Mayor of Cork was so highly satisfied with Mr Cutler's work in that city that he…was prepared if necessary, to come all the way to Belfast to give him a personal recommendation'.
(5) IB 50, 8 Feb 1908, 69.
(6) Building News 104, 7 Feb 1913, 216.
23 work entries listed in chronological order for CUTLER, HENRY ALBERT
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Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SWIMMING BATHS & BUILDINGS |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | - |
Refs: | IB 42, 15 Mar,15 Dec 1900, 315,574 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, HARPUR'S LANE MARKET, HOUSES (011) |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | 11 3-storey labourers' houses to be built. |
Refs: | Architect 63, 15 Jun 1900, Suppl. p.8 |
Building: | CO. CORK, YOUGHAL, AUXILIARY LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1901 |
Nature: | Conversion of Industrial School into auxiliary asylum. With S.A. Kirkby |
Refs: | IB 43, 4 Jul 1901, 784; 53rd Report on district, criminal and private lunatic asylums (1905), 582. |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, FITZGERALD PARK, INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (1902) |
Date: | 1901-1902 |
Nature: | All buildings designed by HAC, who gave his 'gratuitous services', except Canadian Pavilion by Arthur Hill. Builder: William O'Connell. |
Refs: |
IB 42, 10 Oct 1901, 898; 43, 8 May 1902, 1229; Irish Times, 5,28 Apr 1902. |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, MONTENOTTE, STORAGE TANK |
Date: | 1903 |
Nature: | Wrought-iron, 40 feet in diameter |
Refs: | IB 45, 10 Sep 1903, 1978 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, ANGLESEA STREET, CARNEGIE LIBRARY |
Date: | 1903-1905 |
Nature: | FS laid by Mr Carnegie on 21 Oct 1903. £10,000. Contractor: Patrick Murphy. |
Refs: | IB 45, 23 Apr,7 May,5 Nov 1903, 1710,1750,2074; 47, 23 Sep 1905, 659; Brendan Grimes, Irish Carnegie Libraries: a catalogue and architectural history (1998), 120-123 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, LISBURN, SEWERAGE SCHEME |
Date: | 1904 |
Nature: | Assisted by Mr Munce |
Refs: | IB 46, 24 Sep 1904, 640 |
Building: | CO. CORK, MACROOM, SEWAGE SCHEME |
Date: | 1905 |
Nature: | - |
Refs: | IB 47, 11 Mar 1905, 153 |
Building: | CO. CORK, BUTTEVANT, WATER SUPPLY |
Date: | 1905-1907 |
Nature: | For Mallow RDC. Contractor: W. Baird, Dublin, under supervision of W.H. Hill, jr. |
Refs: | IB 47, 3 Jun,21 Oct 1905, 370,729; 48, 28 Jul 1906, 614; 49, 1 Jun 1907, 390 |
Building: | CO. CORK, MALLOW, WATERWORKS |
Date: | 1907 |
Nature: | Executed under superintendence of W.H. Hill. |
Refs: | IB 49, 1 Jun 1907, ? |
Building: | CO. CORK, MALLOW, SEWAGE SYSTEM |
Date: | 1908-1909 |
Nature: | Proposed sewerage scheme; estimated cost about £2,000.£7,000. |
Refs: | IB 50, 22 Aug 1908, 510; 51, 29 May 1909, 342 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MCAULEY STREET, ABATTOIR |
Date: | 1909-1913 |
Nature: | Main entrance formally opened Sep 1913. Builders: H. & J. Martin |
Refs: | IB 51, 21 Aug,4 Sep 1909, 533,573; 52, 19 Feb 1910, 118; 53, 8 Jul 1911, 470;55, 27 Sep,11 Oct 1913, 610(illus.),646(illus.); B 112, 5 Jan 1917, ?. |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, SEWAGE WORKS |
Date: | 1910 |
Nature: | Contractor: J.& W. Stewart |
Refs: | IB 52, 1 Oct 1910, 623 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, RESERVOIR |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | 5 million gallons. Contractor: J & W. Stewart |
Refs: | IB 53, 27 May 1911, 366; Building News 100, 9 Jun 1911, 803. |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, WEST TWIN ISLAND (NEAR), INTERCEPTING HOSPITAL |
Date: | 1911 |
Nature: | Re-erected on new jetty. |
Refs: | IA & C 1, 15 Apr 1911, 158 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MCAULEY STREET, ABATTOIR |
Date: | 1913-1916 |
Nature: | New abattoir, costing £52,000. With J.G. Gamble. |
Refs: | B 112, 5 Jan 1917, 11,23(illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 222 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ?, HOUSING (PROPOSED) |
Date: | 1914 |
Nature: | 2 or 3 roomed self-contained houses |
Refs: | Building News 106, 2 Jan 1914, 42 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS GARDENS, HOUSING |
Date: | 1923 |
Nature: | 2-storey concrete block terrace houses, for Belfast Corporation. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 160-1 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, STRANMILLIS PARK, HOUSES |
Date: | 1923 |
Nature: | Terrace houses designed for Belfast Corpn. under direction of Henry Cutler |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 161 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTHBROOK GARDENS, HOUSES |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | Terrace houses designed for Belfast Corpn. under direction of HC |
Refs: | UAHS: Malone & Stranmillis, 145 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NORTHBROOK GARDENS, HOUSES |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | Red-brick terraces, built under direction of HC for Belfast Corporation. |
Refs: | Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 145 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, TATE'S AVENUE, HOUSES |
Date: | 1924 |
Nature: | Terraces of 'kitchen' houses, for Belfast Corporation. |
Refs: | IB 73, 5 Dec 1931, 1063 |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, NEWTOWNARDS ROAD, SHOP & STORES |
Date: | 1927 |
Nature: | For Maypole Dairy Co. 'to City Architect's plans'.(Was this HAC who retired in 1926 or R.B. Donald who became City Surveyor in 1928?). Plans approved by City Surveyor. |
Refs: | IB 69, 16 Apr 1927, 278 |