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John Poulson (John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson) was born on 14 April, 1910 in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, is a British architectural designer and businessman. Discover John Poulson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson
Occupation Architect
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 14 April 1910
Birthday 14 April
Birthplace Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Date of death 1993
Died Place Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Nationality West

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His wife is Cynthia Sykes (m. 1939)

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1910

John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson (14 April 1910 – 31 January 1993) was a British architectural designer and businessman who caused a major political scandal when his use of bribery was disclosed in 1972.

The highest-ranking figure to be forced out due to the scandal was Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling.

Poulson served a prison sentence, but continued to protest his innocence, claiming that he was "a man more sinned against than sinning".

Poulson came from a strict Methodist family and inherited a strong faith which stressed the importance of self-help.

He did badly at school and at Leeds College of Art but nevertheless was articled to a Pontefract firm of architects, Garside and Pennington.

He left to found his own architecture practice with financial backing from his father.

He never registered with the ARCUK (Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom), later claiming "I was too busy to complete my examinations".

Poulson soon began to cultivate contacts in the local borough council and officials at the larger West Riding County Council.

Work soon began to arrive and Poulson told friends that he was "on his way".

Poulson also became politically involved with the National Liberals, although he never let political differences stop him from making "friends" who were in charge of commissioning public buildings.

He was a Freemason.

1939

Poulson obtained a medical exemption from wartime service in 1939.

The same year he married Cynthia Sykes, whose sister Lorna was married to John King, who many years later was ennobled as John King, Baron King of Wartnaby.

He was thus well placed to expand his business throughout the wartime years.

He was a workaholic and demanded the same commitment from his staff, dismissing staff who would not work his way.

He had his own firm build him a house called Manasseh at a cost of £60,000, helped by building contractors donating services for free in the hope of getting contracts in the future.

1950

In the late 1950s, there was a building boom as many local authorities embarked on major building schemes.

In Newcastle upon Tyne, council leader T. Dan Smith's ambition to redevelop Newcastle attracted the attention of the construction firm Bovis which had worked for Poulson.

1958

The house won the Ideal Homes "House of the Year" competition in 1958.

Poulson revolutionised the accepted architectural method of completing a design then handing it over for costing, planning and building.

He developed a combined architecture and design practice, an all-in-one service which employed all the separate disciplines in integrated teams.

This approach facilitated the development process and reduced costs.

In 1958, the National Liberal MP Sir Herbert Butcher advised his friend Poulson to set up a servicing company to win business for his architect's practice.

Poulson established Ropergate Services Ltd., named after the street in Pontefract where he was based.

This company also had the advantage of reducing Poulson's tax liability considerably.

1960

In the post-war years, Poulson's business boomed and by the 1960s was one of the largest in Europe.

He later admitted that the practice expanded "beyond my wildest dreams" and offices were opened in London, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, Beirut, and Lagos, Nigeria.

1962

Bovis' managing director suggested formalising links and in February 1962 Smith was appointed as a consultant to the Poulson organisation.

This connection was extremely valuable to Poulson as Smith had a network of contacts among other authorities in the north-east, many of whom were also recruited as Poulson consultants.

Smith's involvement with the Labour Party reassured many Labour councillors wary of dealing with someone involved in the Conservative-allied National Liberals.

Poulson also won other public sector work in the North East, such as Sunderland Police Station.

Poulson also found a useful contact in Andrew Cunningham, a senior figure in both the General and Municipal Workers Union and the Labour Party in North East England.

Some of Poulson's largest residential blocks were built in Cunningham's home town of Felling, County Durham.

Cunningham was later imprisoned for his dealings with the architect.

Poulson's work in Felling consisted of the building of one 16-storey high-rise apartment block with six seven-storey blocks of maisonettes surrounding it.

1963

In his home town of Pontefract, Poulson won much local authority work for the then Pontefract Municipal Borough Council, such as the town's library and the Horsefair flats, a high-rise social housing project consisting of four six-storey blocks and one twelve-storey block, constructed between 1963 and 1964, which has proved controversial owing to its proximity to Pontefract Castle.

Poulson was in a good position to gain commissions from the nationalised industries, partly due to his having offered gifts to many civil servants when they were relatively junior and calling upon them for a return of gratitude years later.

1966

These were approved in 1966.

1987

Four of the low-rise maisonette blocks were demolished in 1987 owing to their poor state of repair and tenants dislike of them.

Two maisonette blocks and the high-rise block Crowhall Tower remain.