Butler, John Dixon
Butler, John Dixon (1861–1920). London architect, who in 1895 was appointed Architect and Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police. He collaborated with Norman Shaw on the extensions to New Scotland Yard (1904–6), and himself designed the Police Court and Station, Old Street, Shoreditch (1906), a Mannerist building with a Baroque centrepiece.
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