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* = Architect not employed by the Office of Works or its successors (Ministry of Works, Ministry of Public Building and Works, Department of the Environment, Property Services Agency), or any other Government department
? = indicates a measure of uncertainty
? = indicates a measure of uncertainty
Tanner, Henry (1849-1935)
Entry in Dictionary of National Biography
Obituaries: Architect and Building News, 6 Sep 1935, p. 262; Builder 6 Sep 1935, p. 394; RIBA Journal, v. 42, 1935, p. 1160
Entry in Dictionary of National Biography
Obituaries: Architect and Building News, 6 Sep 1935, p. 262; Builder 6 Sep 1935, p. 394; RIBA Journal, v. 42, 1935, p. 1160
- Office of Works career details
1871 - appointed assistant surveyor in the Office of Works under Robert Richardson and John Taylor
1876 - elected Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects
1881 - appointed surveyor for the Northern District
1883 - appointed surveyor for the London District, succeeding James Williams, with general responsibility for the superintendence for most buildings outside the London area
1891 - elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
1898 - appointed principal surveyor
1901 - job title amended to principal architect and surveyor
1904 - received knighthood
1913 - retired
The following list includes examples of post offices where the drawings are signed by Tanner, suggesting perhaps that they are approved and passed by him as an architect in a senior position in the Office of Works, rather than designed by him. The post offices at Stratford and Swindon are cases in point. Entries appended [+] are buildings listed in Tanner's Royal Institute of British Architects Fellowship application dated 3 January 1891
Post offices:
- Aylesbury Post Office
- Barrow-in-Furness Post Office [+]
- Bedford Post Office
- Bradford Post Office [+]
- Birmingham Post Office
- Brighton Post Office enlargement
- ?Boston Post Office [+]
- Bromley Post Office
- Bury St Edmunds Post Office
- Cardiff Post Office
- Carnforth Post Office [+]
- Croydon Post Office
- Douglas Post Office (Isle of Man)
- ??Dover Post Office
- East Grinstead Post Office
- Epsom Post Office
- ?Gateshead Post Office
- Great Yarmouth Post Office [+]
- Halifax Post Office
- Harrogate Post Office
- Keighley Post Office [+]
- Leeds Post Office
- Leicester Post Office [+]
- Liverpool Eastern District Post Office (Builder 11 Aug 1883 (illustrated)
- Liverpool Old Swan Sorting Office (National Archives WORK 13/169)
- Liverpool Post Office [+]
- London Eastern District Office [+]
- London (GPO King Edward Building)
- London (GPO North) [+]
- London Mount Pleasant Post Office
- London North Western District Post Office extension, Camden Town
- London Paddington District Post Office
- London South Kensington Post Office and Meteorological Office (Building News 9 Sep 1910, p. 364)
- London West Central District Post Office
- London West Kensington Post Office
- Maidenhead Post Office
- Newcastle Post Office extension [+]
- North Shields Post Office [+]
- Nottingham Post Office
- Preston Post Office
- Smethwick Post Office [+]
- South Shields Post Office [+]
- Southampton Post Office
- Southend Post Office
- Southport Post Office
- St Albans Post Office [+]
- Stamford Post Office
- Stratford Post Office
- Sunderland Post Office
- Swindon Post Office (Regent Circus)
- Tipton Post Office
- Tunbridge Wells Post Office
- Warwick Post Office
- Watford Post Office [+]
- West Hartlepool Post Office
- Whitby Post Office
- Wigan Post Office [+]
- Wisbech Post Office [+]
- Woking Post Office
- Wolverhampton Post Office
- York Post Office [+]
- Liverpool Old Swan Sorting Office (National Archives WORK 13/169)
- London East Dulwich Sorting Office
- London Homerton Sorting Office (National Archives WORK 13/169)
- London North Kensington Sorting Office
- London Sydenham Sorting Office
- Sheffield Sorting Office (Flat Street)
- Sydenham Sorting Office
- National Archives WORK 30/4047-4049
- Walworth Sorting Office
- *Thompson, N. D.
- Caterham Post Office
- Goole Post Office (York Herald 11 Oct 1890, p. 11)
- Bodmin Post Office (Honey Street)
- Bude Post Office (11 The Strand)
- Truro Post Office
Obituary: RIBA Journal, v. 3 (1896), p. 60
- St Ives Post Office (Cornishman 5 Jul 1888, p. 5)