R. W. Symonds

Title page of the American edition of Symonds' first work The present state of old English furniture

Robert Wemyss Symonds FRIBA (31 December 1889 – 5 September 1958) was a British architect, and "the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture".[1] His complicated love life, before he married respectably, included affairs with two women, the first of which produced children he never acknowledged, and the second with a woman who he discovered was already married and who was subsequently jailed for perjury in her divorce case.

  1. ^ Symonds, R. W. (Robert Wemyss), 1889–1958 research papers. The Winterthur Library. Retrieved 31 May 2017.