Redfern, Harry (1861-1950), architect

Harry Redfern was a British architect. He went to Abingdon School and was then articled to Henry Woodyer in 1876 and subsequently worked for William Butterfield, Alfred Lawers, Alfred Young Nutt, Peter Dollar, and William Young. In 1889 he established an independent practice in Derby, then worked in partnership with J. J. Stevenson from 1896 until Stevenson's death in 1908. He became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1903.

As Chief Architect to the State Management Districts of the Home Office (1915-45) he was responsible for an extensive programme of rebuilding or remodelling public houses in and around Carlisle and Gretna Green. He was also architect of the British Hospital at Port Said.

His Cambridge work began as a partner of J.J. Stevenson (1896-1908), working on laboratories on the Downing Street Site; his own principal contribution was the Parasitology Laboratory (the Molteno Institute, 1919). It was perhaps through Prof. Nuttall that he came to Magdalene. Throughout the 1920s and '30s he was responsible for all restoration work in College, and designed the Mallory Court conversion (1925). In addition he built several dons' houses in Cambridge, worked also worked for for Christ's College. In Oxford he carried out additions and restoration work at Oriel College and St John's College; and was architect of the biochemistry laboratories.