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High Wycombe, Hughenden Manor 1906
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Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals. In 1870, having finished his training with the architect E B Lamb, he succeeded his father as land agent to the Earl of Beaconsfield (the ennobled Benjamin Disraeli) at Hughenden, and was appointed JP in 1875. Elected a town councillor and alderman in 1870, he was elected to Buckinghamshire County Council at its inception in 1889 and appointed a magistrate for the county in 1895. Elected mayor for the first time in 1882, he was mayor again in 1883, 1891, 1905 and 1906. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce from 1899 to 1906, a captain of Wycombe Fire Brigade from its founding in 1868 until 1881, and President of the Surveyors Institution in 1902–03. In between all this he found time to design very many buildings in the town besides the Grammar School and Priory Road School. These included a temperance hall in Flackwell Heath, a lodge for Hughenden, schools, buildings in the town centre, churches, the former Conservative Club at No 28 High Street of 1897, and many houses.
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