Stjernstedt, Rosemary (1912–1998)

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Stjernstedt, Rosemary (1912–1998)

English architect. Born June 11, 1912, in Birmingham, England; died Oct 31, 1998; married a Swedish lawyer named Stjernstedt, 1930s.

Important architectural designer of British public housing and the 1st woman architect to earn the senior grade 1 status in a British county council division (1950), 1st served for 6 years as an architect and town-and-country planning officer in Stockholm, Sweden (1930s); as a London County Council architect and senior grade 1 architect, worked on the Alton East estate at Roehampton, an important council development; for the Lambeth Council, led the team of the large Central Hill housing development; worked for the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (1964); retired to Wales.

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