Francis Champneys
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Sir Francis Henry Champneys, 1st Baronet, FRCP was an eminent obstetrician known for raising the status of midwives in the early twentieth century, by his campaigning for their training and certificat
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Francis Champneys with family in 1862
Basil Champneys
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Basil Champneys was an English architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester's John Rylands Library, Somerville College Library, Newnham College, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Hall,
Francis Champneys
…Whistler and Laurence Whistler, and the academic Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker). Among his six siblings were the architect and author Basil Champneys and the rowing clergyman Weldon Champneys. As a child and before the invention of perforation, Champneys would spend Sunday afternoons cutting sheets…
Somerville College Library, Oxford
John Rylands Library (1900) in Manchester – Grade-I listed and considered Champneys' magnum opus.
The Rhodes Building, Oriel College, Oxford