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, Gerald Beech and Partners.^[3] He designed the Wyncote Sports Pavilion for the University of Liverpool's sports grounds in Allerton, which won the Civic Trust Award in 1964.^[4] 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 and was Grade II* listed in 2007.^[5][6][7] They also collaborated on a few other buildings, such as the modernist Quaker Meeting House, Heswall, opened 1963, where Beech also designed later modifications in the 1970s.^[4] 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]