Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Belfast, active from the 1930s onwards. Grant Twist was probably a son of EDWARD TWIST EDWARD TWIST . He practised as an architect in Belfast until the late 1960s, when he moved or retired to Bangor, Co. Down. During the 1950s and 1960s he was involved in school work in Co. Down, which included two new intermediate schools at Rathfriland and Saintfield.(1)

RIBA: registered probationer, March 1929.(2)
RSUA: associate by 1937; on list of members for 1980 but not on that for 1982.

Addresses: 348 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, 1929;(3) 120 Scottish Provident Buildings, <=1937-1950; 141 Scottish Provident Buildings, 1951-<=1968; 32 Bellevue, Bangor, Co. Down, >=1970->=1980.



References

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from RSUA membership lists in Thom's directories and RSUA year books.

(1) Forhis school work, see IB 97, 19 Nov 1955, 1218; 99, 21 Sep 1957, 766; 101, 19 Sep,14 Nov 1959, 699,858,860; 104, 13 Oct 1962, 782.
(2) RIBAJ 36 (1928-29), 501.
(3) See note 2, above.