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office</b></span><br />27 October 1931 – 18 September 1959</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carlyon_Bellairs" title="Carlyon Bellairs">Carlyon Bellairs</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Wells_(British_politician,_born_1925)" title="John Wells (British politician, born 1925)">John Wells</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1881-10-06</span>)</span>6 October 1881</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">4 September 1965<span style="display:none">(1965-09-04)</span> (aged 83)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Architect" title="Architect">Architect</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">Politician</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Magnolia_Dallas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Magnolia_Dallas.jpg/250px-Magnolia_Dallas.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Magnolia_Dallas.jpg/375px-Magnolia_Dallas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Magnolia_Dallas.jpg/500px-Magnolia_Dallas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="683" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Magnolia Hotel, <a href="/wiki/Dallas,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas, Texas">Dallas, Texas</a>, 1922</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom</b> <a href="/wiki/GCStJ" class="mw-redirect" title="GCStJ">GCStJ</a> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects" title="Royal Institute of British Architects">FRIBA</a> (6 October 1881 – 4 September 1965) was an <a href="/wiki/Architect" title="Architect">architect</a> in the United States who returned to his native <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and became a <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">politician</a>. He also wrote books on architecture. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Architectural_career">Architectural career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Bossom&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Architectural career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bossom was born in <a href="/wiki/Islington" title="Islington">Islington</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, to Alfred Henry Bossom, a stationer,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his wife Amelia Jane, née Hammond. He was educated at St. Thomas's Charterhouse School, in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City</a>, and studied architecture at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Westminster" title="University of Westminster">Regent Street Polytechnic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Arts" title="Royal Academy of Arts">Royal Academy of Arts</a>. In 1904 he left for the United States to work for <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Steel" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnegie Steel">Carnegie Steel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</a>. He worked on the restoration of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Fort Ticonderoga">Fort Ticonderoga</a> from 1908. </p><p>In 1910, he married Emily, daughter of <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> banker, Samuel Bayne, and they had three sons. As an architect with offices at 680 <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Avenue" title="Fifth Avenue">Fifth Avenue</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, Bossom specialized in the efficient construction of <a href="/wiki/Skyscraper" title="Skyscraper">skyscrapers</a>. While based in New York City he designed a number of major works in Texas, including the <a href="/w/index.php?title=American_Exchange_National_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Exchange National Bank (page does not exist)">American Exchange National Bank</a> (1918). Bossom's Dallas work on the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Maple_Terrace_Apartments_(Dallas,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maple Terrace Apartments (Dallas, Texas) (page does not exist)">Maple Terrace Apartments</a> (1924–1925), and the expansion and renovation of the <a href="/wiki/Adolphus_Hotel" title="Adolphus Hotel">Adolphus Hotel</a>, were done with local architects <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomson_and_Swaine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomson and Swaine (page does not exist)">Thomson and Swaine</a>. After traveling into Mexico, Bossom became a proponent of <a href="/wiki/Mayan_Revival_architecture" title="Mayan Revival architecture">Mayan Revival architecture</a>, clearly reflected in the stepped-back tower and ornament of his 1927 <a href="/wiki/Great_Southwest_Building" title="Great Southwest Building">Petroleum Building</a> in Houston. </p><p>Bossom also designed a number of large houses. Examples include the Henry Devereux Whiton house in <a href="/wiki/Hewlett,_New_York" title="Hewlett, New York">Hewlett, New York</a>, additions to the <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Wright_Harriman" title="Joseph Wright Harriman">Joseph Wright Harriman</a> house in <a href="/wiki/Brookville,_New_York" title="Brookville, New York">Brookville, New York</a>, and the remarkable <a href="/wiki/Edward_Howland_Robinson_Green" title="Edward Howland Robinson Green">Edward Howland Robinson Green</a> estate in <a href="/wiki/Round_Hill,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Round Hill, Massachusetts">Round Hill, Massachusetts</a>. </p><p>He also invented a device for protecting people from suffocating if they accidentally got locked in a bank vault.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of architects began their careers in his offices. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Juster" title="Samuel Juster">Samuel Juster</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_DePace" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony DePace">Anthony DePace</a> met in these offices, later founding the firm of <a href="/wiki/DePace_and_Juster" class="mw-redirect" title="DePace and Juster">DePace and Juster</a>; DePace went from Bossom's skyscraper work to become project manager at <a href="/wiki/Cass_Gilbert" title="Cass Gilbert">Cass Gilbert</a>'s offices, project managing the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Life_Building" title="New York Life Building">New York Life Building</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Return_to_England">Return to England</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Bossom&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Return to England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Liberty_Building.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Liberty_Building.jpg/250px-Liberty_Building.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="498" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Liberty_Building.jpg/375px-Liberty_Building.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Liberty_Building.jpg/500px-Liberty_Building.jpg 2x" data-file-width="848" data-file-height="1688" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Building_(Buffalo,_New_York)" title="Liberty Building (Buffalo, New York)">Liberty Building</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a></figcaption></figure> <p>At the height of his career in 1926, Bossom returned to <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> with his family, determined that his children should be educated there. Entirely detached from his architectural career, he began a new life of public service and was elected as <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">member of Parliament</a> (MP) for <a href="/wiki/Maidstone_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Maidstone (UK Parliament constituency)">Maidstone</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931 general election</a>. He held the seat until he retired from the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">1959 general election</a>, having taken time out during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> to serve in the <a href="/wiki/British_Home_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="British Home Guard">British Home Guard</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 1931, Bossom and Mansfield Forbes bought <a href="/wiki/Bourn_Windmill" title="Bourn Windmill">Bourn Windmill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a>. They had the mill repaired, and presented it to the Cambridge Preservation Society in 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times040632_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times040632-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year, Bossom's wife had died in an aircrash,<sup id="cite_ref-aircrash_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aircrash-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he was remarried to another American, Elinor Dittenhofer in 1934, but they were divorced in 1947. </p><p>In 1951 he held the reception of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Roberts</a> after her marriage to <a href="/wiki/Denis_Thatcher" title="Denis Thatcher">Denis Thatcher</a> at his Chelsea home; later she became Britain's first female prime minister (1979–1990). </p><p>In 1952, he was made an honorary <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Law" title="Doctor of Law">Doctor of Law</a> by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh" title="University of Pittsburgh">University of Pittsburgh</a>. On 4 July 1953, he was created a <a href="/wiki/Baronet" title="Baronet">baronet</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a> in the <a href="/wiki/County_of_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="County of Kent">County of Kent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 30 January 1960, he was created a <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> as <b>Baron Bossom</b>, of Maidstone in the County of <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1965, Bossom died in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, and as his title was a <a href="/wiki/Life_peerage" class="mw-redirect" title="Life peerage">life peerage</a>, it became extinct upon his death, although his hereditary baronetcy passed to his only surviving child, <a href="/wiki/Clive_Bossom" title="Clive Bossom">Clive</a> (his eldest and youngest sons had died in 1932 and 1959 respectively).<sup id="cite_ref-aircrash_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aircrash-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bossom was also president of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anglo-Baltic_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anglo-Baltic Society (page does not exist)">Anglo-Baltic Society</a>. <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> joked of him, "Bossom, Bossom, that's an odd name! Neither one thing nor the other", in reference to the words "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buxom" class="extiw" title="wikt:buxom">buxom</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Buttocks" title="Buttocks">bottom</a>". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Architectural_designs">Architectural designs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Bossom&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Architectural designs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Ticonderoga" title="Fort Ticonderoga">Fort Ticonderoga</a>, architect of the first stages of the reconstruction of the French fortress for Col. Robert M Thompson and Mr & Mrs Stephen HP Pell, 1908-</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Covington_Saving_Bank_Building_(Covington,_Virginia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Covington Saving Bank Building (Covington, Virginia) (page does not exist)">Covington Saving Bank Building</a>, 1910</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_National_Bank_Building_(Richmond,_Virginia)" title="First National Bank Building (Richmond, Virginia)">First National Bank Building</a>, as designer for <a href="/wiki/Clinton_and_Russell" title="Clinton and Russell">Clinton and Russell</a>, Richmond, Virginia, 1912-1913</li> <li>American Exchange National Bank (1918)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Mutual_Building" title="Virginia Mutual Building">Virginia Mutual Building</a>, with local architects Carneal and Johnston, Richmond, Virginia, 1919</li> <li>Virginia Trust Company Building in Richmond</li> <li>Lynchburg National Bank and Trust at Ninth and Main in Lynchburg<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Howland_Robinson_Green" title="Edward Howland Robinson Green">Edward Howland Robinson Green</a> Mansion, <a href="/wiki/Round_Hill,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Round Hill, Massachusetts">Round Hill, Massachusetts</a>, 1921</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnolia_Hotel_(Dallas,_Texas)" title="Magnolia Hotel (Dallas, Texas)">Magnolia Hotel</a>, with local architects Lang & Witchell, Dallas, Texas, 1922</li> <li>Maple Terrace Apartments (Dallas, Texas) (1924–25),</li> <li>United States National Bank, Galveston, Texas, 1924</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Building_(Buffalo,_New_York)" title="Liberty Building (Buffalo, New York)">Liberty Building</a>, Buffalo, New York, 1925</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Southwest_Building" title="Great Southwest Building">Petroleum Building</a>, Houston, Texas, 1925–26</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal-American_National_Bank" title="Federal-American National Bank">Federal-American National Bank</a>, Washington, D.C., 1925–1926</li> <li>First National Bank Building, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1920</li> <li>Prestwould Apartments, Richmond, Virginia 1929 <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Bossom&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He authored books on architecture including: </p> <ul><li><i>An Architectural Pilgrimage in Old Mexico</i>, Charles Scribner's, 1924.</li> <li><i>Building to the Skies: The Romance of the Skyscraper</i>, 1934.</li></ul> <div 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Bossom's American Architecture, 1903-1926</i>, London: Book Art, 1984.</li> <li>Robert B. MacKay, <i>Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940</i>, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-03856-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-03856-4">0-393-03856-4</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbozl">The Handbook of Texas Online</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Bossom&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hansard" title="Hansard">Hansard</a></i> 1803–2005: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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