
Edmund Walter Wimperis was born in Brixton Surrey [now London] England on 10 February 1865. He was articled to his cousin John Thomas Wimperis (1829-1904) in London from 1882 to 1886 and remained with him as his assistant. He also attended classes at the Architectural Association in London. He qualified as an architect in 1889 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) later that year. From 1889 to c.1898 he worked as an assistant in the office of Wimperis & Arber in London. Wimperis commenced practice as an architect in London, in the 1890s. He was in partnership with Hubert Springford East (1868-1947) in the 1890s and in c.1900 formed a partnership with John Reginald Best (1866-1950) as Wimperis & Best.
Architectural works by Wimperis included 26 Grosvenor Street, London (1913-16), and with Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie, the rebuilding of the Fortnum & Mason department store at 181–184 Piccadilly, London (1926-27); alterations to Dupplin Castle in Forteviot, Perthshire, Scotland (c.1925); Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, with Edwin Landseer Lutyens as consultant (1926) Cambridge Theatre, London, with interiors by Serge Chermayeff (1929-30) North Scottish Regional Broadcasting Station in Burghead, Morayshire (c.1935); Winfield House, London (1936); 63 Harley Street, London (1936); the Marine Gate block of flats in Brighton, Sussex (1939); and Park Lodge and Avenue Lodge and 47, 49, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 75 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood, London.
Wimperis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1905. In 1910 he was appointed Surveyor to the Grosvenor Estate in London. He retired from practice in 1946 and died in Uckfield, Sussex in December 1946
A biographical file on Edmund Walter Wimperis is available on request at the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects, London.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)