Isidore George Beaver

Isidore George Beaver (1859 - 24 October 1934) was an architect from England who had a substantial career in Adelaide, South Australia and Melbourne, Victoria.
History
Beaver, originally from Manchester, in 1884 had an office on Victoria Square, Adelaide. H. E. Fuller served his articles with him for four years from 1884. In 1885 he was a vice-president of the South Australian Architects Association. He joined with partners Edmund Wright and James Henry Reed to form Wright, Reed & Beaver, and expanded their practice into the neighboring colony Victoria. The partnership was dissolved in 1893.
He moved to Victoria, and in 1901 had an office in Melbourne at 11 Elizabeth Street, and by 1915 was at 82 Elizabeth Street, when Arthur William Purnell joined him to form the partnership Beaver & Purnell which lasted 1915-1925.
He was the hon. treasurer of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects in 1910.
Works
*He was associated with William McMinn in the design of extensions to the Masonic Hall in Waymouth Street, Adelaide.
*He designed a substantial residence in Stirling West, near the Mount Lofty railway station, for William Milne, jun., which employed solid stone window piers tall, and extensive use of Mintaro slate.
*He designed the Outpatients' wards at the Queen Victoria Hospital, opened in 1902, and nine years later the operating theatre dedicated by the National Council of Women as a memorial to Dr. Mary Page Stone.
Other interests
He conducted classes in technical drawing at the School of Design from 1889.
He was a member, with his yacht Bonita, of the Holdfast Bay Yacht Club, and swam competitively in the Glenelg pool.
After moving to Victoria he rode to hounds from 1901 to 1934 with the Melbourne Hunt Club.
From 1913 he was a member of the Toorak Bowling Club.
He was an expert skater, a member of the Original London Skating Club and a director in the company formed in 1926 to reopen the Melbourne Glaciarium.
Family
Beaver never married. The chief beneficiary of his will was a niece.
Albert Beaver (died 16 March 1909), who was arrested for embezzlement in 1897, and then released under curious circumstances was a brother. Mrs Salenger of Sydney and Mrs. Schlank of Adelaide were sisters.

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