Gordon Leith

George Esslemont Gordon Leith (1885–1965) was a South African architect.

Johannesburg Park Station, 1932

Career

He started his career working for Herbert Baker.^[1]

Leith served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery (and was later recovering from a Western Front gas attack).^[2]

Leith was assistant architect to the Imperial War Graves Commission in England from 1918 to 1920, before going back to South Africa, where he set up his own practice.^[1]

Leith's works include the Calais Southern War Cemetery, France (1918–20), Johannesburg Park Station (1927–32), the Town Hall, Bloemfontein (1920–40), the South African Reserve Bank, Johannesburg (1938),^[1] and the Queen Victoria Hospital, Johannesburg (1943).^[3]

Personal life

He married Ethel Mary Leith, née Cox (1888–1974). Their daughter Sarah Greenaway Leith (1918-2010), was a British rally driver and novelist, and a Second World War codebreaker at Bletchley Park.