George Frederick Bodley (14 March 1827 – 21 October 1907) was an English architect working in the Gothic revival style.
Bodley was the youngest son of William Hulme Bodley, M.D. of Edinburgh, who moved his medical practice from Kingston upon Hull to Brighton, Sussex, England, in his son's youth. George's elder brother, the Rev. W. H. Bodley, became a well-known Roman Catholic preacher and a professor at St Mary’s College, New Oscott, Birmingham.
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George Frederick Bodley (14 March 1827 – 21 October 1907) was an English architect working in the Gothic revival style.
Bodley was the youngest son of William Hulme Bodley, M.D. of Edinburgh, who moved his medical practice from Kingston upon Hull to Brighton, Sussex, England, in his son's youth. George's elder brother, the Rev. W. H. Bodley, became a well-known Roman Catholic preacher and a professor at St Mary’s College, New Oscott, Birmingham.
He married Minna F. H. Reavely, the daughter of Thomas George Wood Reavely, at Kinnersley Castle in 1872. They had one son, George H. Bodley, born in 1874.
George Bodley was articled to the famous architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, under whose influence he became imbued with the spirit of the Gothic revival, and he gradually became known as the chief exponent of 14th century English Gothic, and the leading ecclesiastical architect in England. He is regarded as the leader of the resurgence of interest in English and northern European late...
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