Biography
Martyn Gervase Beckett (1918-2001), son of Sir Gervase Beckett (1836-1937), a Conservative MP and a wealthy Yorkshire banker who was created a baronet in 1921, studied at Hammersmith School of Architecture in 1950, after working for A S F Butler, a follower of Lutyens, until 1949. He had been encouraged by his brother-in-law, Lord Esher (1913-2004). He set up his own private practice in London, in 1952. He was also a trustee of the Wallace Collection and served as chairman of the Council for the Protection of Rural England's trust and looked after more than one hundred listed buildings, many in the care of the National Trust as well as a Contemporary Art Society Committee Member.
