Facts: - significant buildings: burford priory , oxfordshire - death date: 16 sept 1961 - significant projects: herstmonceux castle - awards: riba silver medallist -lrb- essay -rrb- , 1906 - birth date: 1881 - name: walter hindes godfrey - practice: wratten & godfrey - nationality: english Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of walter godfrey .
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walter hindes godfrey cbe , fsa , friba -lrb- 1881 -- 1961 -rrb- , was an english architect , antiquary , and architectural and topographical historian .he was also a landscape architect and designer , and an accomplished draftsman and illustrator .he was -lrb- 1941-60 -rrb- the first director and the inspiration behind the foundation of the national buildings record , the basis of today 's english heritage archive , and edited or contributed to numerous volumes of the survey of london .he devised a system of service heraldry for recording service in the european war .he was the son of walter scott godfrey and gertrude annie rendall ; he married gertrude mary -lrb- d 1955 -rrb- , second daughter of alexander grayston warren , and had three daughters and a son , emil godfrey , also an architect who founded the practice of carden and godfrey .