Alexander Nelson HANSELL

(1857 – 1940)

English architect who designed a number of buildings in and around the “Kôbe Foreign Settlement” | 1857 born in Caen, Normandy, France | 1888 trains as an architecht before he moves to Japan where he first works as an English teacher in “Kawaguchi Foreign Settlement” in Ôsaka. Later becomes an architect: his first commission to design the “Harris Science Hall” of “Dôshisha University” in Kyôto | 1891 becomes full member of the “Royal Institute of British Architects” | 1914-18 during First World War his only son was killed in battle | 1920~ moves to Hankou in China and later to Monaco | 1940 died

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