Alfred Bossom
Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom RIBA ( born October 6, 1881 in London, † September 4, 1965 ) was a British architect, peer and politician of the Conservative Party.
Life and career
Bossom was born in London, the son of Alfred Henry and Amelia Jane ( Hammond ) Bossom. He attended Charterhouse St. Thomas School, after which he studied architecture at the University of Westminster and the Royal Academy of Arts. He went in 1903 to the United States for the Carnegie Steel Company to work and in 1908 to work on the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga. In 1910 he married Emily Bayne, the daughter of the banker Samuel Bayne; they had three sons. His wife died in 1932 in a plane crash. He married in 1934 but Elinor Ditte Hofer had divorced her in 1947.
During his work in New York City, he designed a number of important buildings in Texas, such as the American Exchange National Bank ( 1918).
He invented a device that protects people in front to stifle that are accidentally locked in a bank vault.
At the height of his career, he came back in 1926 with his family to England, so that his children could attend an English school. He gave up his architecture career and was elected in 1931 as Member of Parliament for Maidstone.
In 1952 he was appointed by the University of Pittsburgh, honorary Doctor of Law. In 1953 he was appointed " Baronet of Maidstone in Kent. 1960 he received the noble title of Baron Bossom of Maidstone in Kent. Bossom was also president of the Anglo -Baltic society. Winston Churchill joked when introducing Bossom Who is this man whose name means neither the one nor the other? ( Who is this man whose name means neither one thing nor the other? ).