H. Kempton Dyson
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| Born |
24 January 1880 Stratford, London |
| Died | 15 January 1944 (aged 63) Kensington, London |
| Nationality | English |
| Citizenship | Great Britain |
| Spouse(s) | Nellie Cooper (b.1886) |
| Children | Norman Kempton Dyson (1910–1975) |
| Parent(s) | Wiliam Frankliin Dyson (1853–1918) Edith Blyth Kempton (1857–1905) |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | structural, civil, architect |
| Institutions | Associate member Institution of Civil Engineers (1908) Member of Institution of Structural Engineers (1917) |
| Practice name | H. Kempton Dyson |
| Significant design | Central Bandstand, Herne Bay (1924) |
| Awards | Bronze Medal of Concrete Institute (1922) |
Herbert William Charles Kempton Dyson, M.I.Struct.E. (1880–1944), known professionally as H. Kempton Dyson, was an English structural engineer, civil engineer, architect, editor and author who specialised in reinforced concrete structures. He was a founder member and the first permanent secretary of the Concrete Institute, which became the Institution of Structural Engineers. He designed the Central Bandstand, Herne Bay in 1924.
Dyson's paternal grandfather was William Farrell Dyson of Great Yarmouth (1823–1886), who married Mary Ann Franklin (1826–1891) at Great Yarmouth in 1852. Dyson's maternal grandfather was Green Kempton (1824–1885) of Cambridge who married Eliza Campion in Cambridge in 1845.
Dyson's father was architect William Franklin Dyson who was born in Great Yarmouth, 1853, and died in Edmonton, 1918. His mother was Edith Blyth Kempton who was born in Cambridge, 1857, and died in Wandsworth, 1905. His parents married in Cambridge on 23 January 1879.
He was born on 24 January 1880 in Stratford, and was baptised in the same year at All Saints Church, Cambridge. He was his parents' only son. By 1881 he was living at 126 Upper Kennington Lane, Lambeth, and by 1901 he was in south-west Battersea. In Hackney in 1909 he married Nellie Cooper, only daughter of George Cooper; she was born in Germany in 1886. By 1911 at the age of 31 Dyson was calling himself Herbert Kempton Dyson, he was listed as secretary of the Concrete Institute and was living with his wife in Richmond. In 1924 he was living at 17 Warwick Square, London SW1. He died at home, at no.3 De Vere Gardens, Kensington on 15 January 1944 aged 63 years, and was described in his Times obituary paragraph as a registered architect and chartered structural engineer, and as the "beloved husband of Nellie Kempton Dyson".
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