Architects Abroad

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 5

Architects Abroad

HE most prized possession among architects in the United Kingdom is the Rome Scholarship. Its value is £250 yearly and tenable for three years at the British School in Rome, a centre for advanced study and research, with access to the studios and library of the Archeological Faculty. In 1926 two young New Zealanders who had worked their passages to London as_ stokers, with the avowed object of studying in London and getting the Rome Scholarship, were successful. Of course both of them couldn’t. both win the first prize, so they did the next best thing. A. D. Connell, of Eltham, won first place, and his friend, &. R. Ward} of Napier and Wellington, was second. The second man is awarded the Jarvis Scholarship, which also entitles the winner to admittance to the school in Rome. Following their successes, both young men decided to revisit their native country. They got positions as stewards on outward bound steamers, Ward in the Port Dunedin, and Connell in the emigrant quarters of the Tonic. To the credit of the Government of the day, it determined that such ambition was deserving of recognition and made a grant so that they might travel on their return to England in greater comfort. The London firm of Connell, Ward and Lucas is now in the forefront of. new English architecture--(Bernard Magee and Major F. H, Lampen, "New Zealand Brains Abroad," 2YA). ;