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Benjamin Adkins 1755-circa 1821 Mary Baker 1767-1814 Benjamin Adkins 1796-1845 Harriet Ratcliffe born circa 1800

Benjamin Adkins 1 architect 2 of Faversham, Kent 3 born 27 October 1831, Rouen, France 4 baptized 19 March 1836, Rouen, Reformed Church 5 died 1908, Brighton 6 Notes: The following notes were supplied by John Coulter, based on work by Dr Arthur Percival, of Faversham Heritage Centre. He spent most of his childhood in France, where his father designed and built boats for the Seine. He returned to Britain after his father's death at Rouen in 1845. In 1851 the census return records him living at 3 Castle Place, Cantebury, and gives his occupation as carpenter. While training as an architect, he met his future bride, Sarah Rutherford, a farmer's daughter, and married her in 1860 at the parish church of Belmont, on the outskirts of Durham, which he had helped to design. Back in Kent he sought a suitable town in which to set up a practice. He settled in Faversham, where, in 1868, he designed a house for himself and his family, the handsome Newton Lodge, in Newton Road, now marked with a Faversham plaque. Here he also worked, designing some of the finest Victorian buildings in the Faversham area. Qualifying ARIBA in 1869, he became the town's first architect. Among his many buildings are Davington School, Faversham, and the purpose-built offices of the Shepherd Neame brewing company at 16-17 Court Street, Faversham, complete with hop motif around the door. He also designed the splendid 13 Market Place, Faversham ( now the National Westminster Bank), Faversham Gospel Mission and an addition to nearby Graveney's village school. A freemason in Faversham's Lodge of Harmony, Adkins oversaw, in 1887, the sensitive conversion, for masonic purposes, of the old grammar school, built three centuries earlier in 1587-88. Towards the end of his life, he moved to Brighton, where he died in 1908.

married 18 September 1860 at Belmont Parish Church, Durham 7 Sarah Rutherford born circa 1836

Percy Rutherford b. c1868 Harriet Sophia b. c1870 Benjamin Ratcliffe b.1872

children of Benjamin and Sarah Adkins Percy Rutherford Adkins 8 born circa 1868 physician 9 born circa 1868, Faversham, Kent 10 Harriet Sophia Adkins born circa 1870 born circa May 1870, Faversham, Kent 11 Benjamin Ratcliffe Adkins born 1872 born 1872, Faversham, Kent 12

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