Harold Peto

Ernest George & Peto [also known as George & Peto] was an architectural partnership formed in London, England by Ernest George (1839-1922) and Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854-1933). After sixteen successful years, in which the practice designed numerous country houses and residences in Kensington and Chelsea, in 1892, for reasons of health, Peto withdrew from the partnership. Projects by the practice included premises for Thomas Goode & Co. in South Audley Street, London (1875–76; Ossington Coffee Palace in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire (1881–82); and serveral country houses including Buchan Hill, Crawley, Sussex (1882–84); Batsford Park, Gloucestershire (1887–88), Shiplake Court, Oxfordshire (1889–91); Poles, Ware, Hertfordshire (1890–92); West Dean Park, Sussex (1891–93); Motcombe House, Shaftesbury, Dorset (1892–94); North Mymms, Hertfordshire (1893–98). Grainger, Hilary Joyce. The architecture of Sir Ernest George and his partners, c.1860-1922. Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 1985 Gray, A. Stuart. Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1985 [Entries for Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto] [• Hilary J. Grainger. George & Peto. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online [Subscription service]](