Frederick Henry Caiger

Frederick Henry Caiger (1825^[a] - 14 May 1904^[2]) was a British architect, active from 1865 to 1873^[3] and most notable as Architect and Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police from 1868 to 1885.^[4][2]

Career

The only son of Frederick Caiger (a solicitor in Winchester, where Frederick Henry was born), he studied under Thomas Hellyer^[1] His notable police designs include the former police stations on Commercial Road (1874-1875)^[5] and in Islington^[6] and Isleworth (1873)^[7] and probably that in Waltham Abbey.^[8]

He died at 87 St Mark's Road, North Kensington, London.^[2] His son Frederick Foord Caiger became a medical doctor.^[9]

Notes

1. Baptised at St Thomas Church, Winchester on 23 October 1825.^[1]

References

1. "Hampshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1921".
2. 'Deaths', The Times, 19 May 1904, page 1
3. Directory of British Architects, 1834-1914: Vol. 1 (A-K) (British Architectural Library: Bloomsbury Publishing, 20 December 2001), page 321
4. Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979, 1979, page 123
5. "'Plate 49', in Survey of London: Volume 27, Spitalfields and Mile End New Town, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1957), British History Online".
6. Barson, Susie. "Highbury Vale police station - a brief history" (PDF). No. December 2015. Highbury Community News. p. 4.
7. "CEX585 Conservation Area Appraisals - Appendix 3 - Isleworth Road ..." (PDF).
8. "Bryn Elliott, Peeler's Progress - Policing in Waltham Abbey since 1840, page 13" (PDF).
9. "The Lancet, 1929; British Medical Journal, 1929".