Smart and Brown furnishers, 5-9 Bridlesmith Gate Nottingham 1895Former premises of Redmayne and Todd, Carrington Street, Nottingham 1896-97118 Derby Road, Nottingham 1898-99The Thurland Hall, Pelham Street, Nottingham 1898-1900
Captain Gilbert Smith Doughty (1861 – 18 December 1909) CE was an architect based in Nottingham and Matlock.
History
Doughty was born in Nottinghamshire in 1861, the son of Edwin Doughty and Annie Smith. He was a pupil at University School, Nottingham[1] and then studied at the Nottingham School of Art and in 1879 his design for a mantlepiece and glass was included in the annual exhibition.[2]
On 12 April 1894 he married May Edgcombe Rendle in Winslow.
He served for a time in the Robin Hood Rifles, and in 1894 was appointed a captain.[3] He resigned his commission on 13 May 1896.[4]
In 1893 he took over the practice of George Edward Statham in Matlock.[5]
He died in 1909 of alcoholism at his home in Prebend Mansions, Chiswick.[6]
^"Prize day at University School". Nottinghamshire Guardian. England. 21 December 1877. Retrieved 18 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Exhibition of Students' works at the Nottingham School of Art". Nottingham Evening Post. England. 31 December 1879. Retrieved 18 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Robin Hood Rifles". Nottinghamshire Guardian. England. 20 January 1894. Retrieved 18 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ a b c d eHarwood, Elain (2008). Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300126662.
^"Re-opening of the Baptist Chapel, Wirksworth". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 31 July 1897. Retrieved 18 March 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.