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Canadian-born architect, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and at the Royal Academy in London. He designed several buildings in England including houses at Bagshot, Surrey (1914), the Earl Haig Memorial Homes, Meadow Head, Sheffield, Yorks. (1928–9), Broom Park and Huxhams Cross Houses, Dartington Hall, Devon (1932–3), and much else, but he is best known for the planning the second English Garden City, Welwyn Garden City, Herts. (1919–60). Besides laying out the whole plan of Welwyn, de Soissons designed a high proportion of its civic buildings, its early factories, and its housing where he introduced a pleasing Neo-Georgian style with a Colonial flavour.
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Created by Duncan Birrell, January 2018
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'Who's Who in Architecture, 1926' (London: World Microfilm Publication, 1987), p.90