Gilbert Murray Simpson

Gilbert Murray Simpson
Born	1869 Brighton, East Sussex
Died	1954
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Thomas Simpson & Son (from 1890)
Buildings	Varndean School, Brighton
Projects	Schools for Brighton and Preston School Board (from 1890)

Gilbert Murray Simpson friba (1869–1954) was a British architect from Brighton who did most of his work in the seaside resort. In 1890 Simpson joined his father Thomas, architect to the Brighton and Preston School Board and the Hove School Board, and helped to design some of the "distinguished group of board schools" for those institutions during the late 19th century. He took over the firm of Thomas Simpson & Son when his father died in 1908, and went on to design several other institutional buildings in Brighton. His elder brother Sir John William Simpson was also an architect.

Simpson was born in Brighton in 1869 to the Scottish architect Thomas (1825–1908) and Clara Simpson (née Hart). He was 11 years younger than his "better-known" brother John. After his education at Bishop's Stortford College, he started his career in architecture in 1886 as an articled clerk to his father at his office at 16 Ship Street, Brighton. He progressed to the position of assistant, and became a partner in 1890 when the firm took the name Thomas Simpson & Son. From 1908, William Jackson Pywell (1884/5–1917) was articled to the firm. Simpson qualified as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ariba) in 1893; his proposers were Thomas Lainson, Lacy Ridge and A. Cates.

Working alongside his father at first, he spent 47 years as architect and surveyor to the Brighton and Preston School Board and its successor the Brighton Education Committee, which was formed on 1 April 1903 as a result of the Education Act 1902 (which abolished school boards and brought all education provision under borough council control).

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