Edwin Nash

For the member of the Washington House of Representatives, see Edwin D. Nash.

Edwin Nash FRIBA (1812[1] – 14 May 1884)[2] was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in mid-nineteenth-century Kent, England. Most of his commissions were churches. He worked with architect John Nash Round on St. John the Evangelist, Penge (1850). Thereafter he worked alone. He proposed Joseph Fogerty to be a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He married Euphemia of Camberwell and was the father of architect Walter Hilton Nash (1850–1927).[3] He was born in Kennington, Surrey, the son of William Woodbridge Nash and Elizabeth, and baptised 8 January 1813.[4] He died at Lawrie Park, Sydenham, Kent,[5] age 70 or 71.

  1. ^ London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1930
  2. ^ Antonia Brodie. Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: L-Z (Continuum, 2001) p. 241.
  3. ^ "Mr. W. Hilton Nash". The Times. 31 December 1927. p. 12.
  4. ^ Edwin Nash in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
  5. ^ "Deaths". The Times. 17 May 1884. p. 1.