Gerald Beech

Gerald Rushworth Beech (1921 – 2013) was an English architect.

Beech was born in 1921 in Congleton, Cheshire,[1][2] and educated at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture starting in 1937, and was a staff member there from 1948 to the 1980s.[3]

Beech also ran an architectural practice in Liverpool.[3] Cedarwood, a house he designed with Dewi-Prys Thomas in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, was named "House of the Year" in 1960 by Woman's Journal.[4][5] In 1975 he was elected as chairman of the North West Regional Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects.[1]

Beech died in 2013.[3] The Gerald Beech Partnership Papers are held by the University of Liverpool Library.[1]

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