Basil Champneys [SEP] date of death
Basil Champneys
Basil Champneys (17 September 1842 – 5 April 1935) was an English architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester's John Rylands Library, Somerville College Library (Oxford), Newnham College, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford's Rhodes Building.
Life.
Champneys was born in Whitechapel, London, on 17 September 1842 into a family with a modest income, his father, William Weldon Champneys, was an Evangelical Vicar of St Mary
Dalrymple-Champneys baronets
The Champneys, later Dalrymple-Champneys Baronetcy, of Littlemeads in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 July 1910 for the distinguished physician Francis Champneys. The second Baronet assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple. The title became extinct on his death in 1980.
The first Baronet was the son of William Champneys, Dean of Lichfield from 1868 until 1875; and the younger brother of Weldon Champneys and Basil Champneys.
Champneys,