Author: Charles Henry Bourne Quennell
Alternate names: C. H. B. Quennell; C H B Quennell; C. H. Quennell; C H Quennell; C.H. Quennell; H. B. C. Quennell (misspelling); C. H. B. (Charles Henry Bourne) Quennell
Born: 1872
Died: 1935
Bio: Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (1872–1935), was an English architect, designer, illustrator and writer. (Often known as C. H. B. Quennell.)

Quennell was the son of Henry Quennell, a builder, and his wife Emma Rebecca (née Hobbs), and grew up in a house at Cowley Road on the Holland Town Estate, Kennington, London. He was the husband of Marjorie Quennell whom he met in 1903 at the Junior Art Worker's Guild and father of Peter Quennell. With his wife, he wrote extensively on social history.

He was articled to Newman and Newman, and worked in the offices of J. McK. Brydon and of J. D. Sedding and Henry Wilson. He began practice in 1896 working with his brother William developing houses at Hampstead Garden Suburb and then with developer George Washington Hart.

Quennell died in December 1935; his final words to his wife were "There you go – butting in as usual." 


*-- adapted from Wikipedia*