Latham_Withall
Latham Augustus Withall OBE (1853[1] – 16 January 1925)[2] was a British architect who practised in Adelaide, South Australia from 1876 to 1888.[3] His middle name is frequently rendered as "August".
He served a five-year apprenticeship with Thomas Chatfield Clarke FRIBA.[4]
He arrived in Adelaide, South Australia sometime before 1876, and by August 1878 was proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Port Augusta.[5]
While in Adelaide he was in partnership with Ernest H. Bayer 1879–1884, then with their draftsman Alfred Wells.[6] Work with Wells included the Adelaide Arcade and Thebarton Town Hall in 1885, and the Jubilee Exhibition Building in 1886. After Withall and his family returned to England in 1888,[7] Wells and the firm designed the new (1892) Stock Exchange Building, and the Angas and Allen Campbell Buildings of the Adelaide Children's Hospital.
Withall was the architect of the Fox and Anchor, a Grade II listed public house at 115 Charterhouse Street, Farringdon, London, built in 1898.[8]
Sometime before 1905 he left Suffolk (Reigate, Surrey?) for Perth, Western Australia,[9] where he began working as a construction engineer for the Water Supply Department. In 1915 he volunteered for service with the First AIF,[4] and returned to England, where he worked as architectural superintendent of the Australian military hospitals in Essex with the rank of Captain, service for which he was accorded an OBE in the 1919 Birthday Honours. He died in London.[10]