Alban Douglas Rendall Caroe OBE FSA FRIBA (17 April 1904 − 11 December 1991) was a British architect.

Life

He was the son of the architect W. D. Caröe and brother of Sir Olaf Caroe. He married Gwendolen Mary Bragg (1907–1982), daughter of William Henry Bragg. When she died in 1982, she was writing an informal history of the Royal Institution, which was completed by Alban. Alban and Gwendolen's son, with whom he worked, was Martin Caroe. Their daughter, Lucy Caroe, historical geographer, married Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian. Alban Caroe was appointed an OBE in the 1987 Birthday Honours.

Alban Caroe

Notable work

South extension to University of Wales Building, Cardiff (1954). His father had designed the main building (now Cardiff University) in 1903.

Alban Caroe

Books

(1st edition, 1984)

Alban Caroe

References

External links

(photographic portrait by Walter Stoneman)

1904 births

1991 deaths

20th-century English architects

British people of Danish descent

Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Officers of the Order of the British Empire