Harold Boas OBE (1883 - 1980)

Born 27 Sep 1883 in Adelaide, South Australia

Husband of Saidee (Cohen) Boas — married 29 Mar 1911 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Died 17 Sep 1980 at age 96 in Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

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Biography

Harold Boas ^[1] (1883-1980), architect, town planner and Jewish community leader, was born on 27 September 1883 in Adelaide, third son of ten children of Abraham Tobias Boas and his wife Elizabeth, née Solomon.
Harold was educated at Whinham and Prince Alfred colleges, Adelaide. Indentured in 1899-1904 to the architect Edward Davies, he studied at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries and became a member of the South Australian Institute of Architects. Boas moved to Perth in June 1905 and transferred to the Western Australian institute; he was subsequently to become a fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
Having joined the firm of M. F. Cavanagh & Austin Bastow, he worked with different architects before settling with Oldham, Boas, Ednie-Brown & Partners. . . more . .
. . . Boas lived in Mount Street in the house which he had designed in 1925. He worked professionally and was active in public affairs until late in life. Predeceased by his wife and survived by their two daughters, he died at Subiaco on 17 September 1980 and was cremated. The Harold Boas Gardens in West Perth were named in his honour.

South Australia Birth Index : 1883 | 313/156 ^[2]
Surname | Given Name | Father Name | Mother Name | District |
BOAS | Harold | Abraham Tobias BOAS | Elizabeth Solomon | Adelaide

MARRIAGES. 1911
BOAS—COHEN. ^[3] — On March 29, at the Synagogue, Perth, by the Rev. D. I. Freedman, Saidie Cohen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Cohen, of Perth, to Harold Boas, third son of the Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Boas, of Adelaide.
"At home" 68 Coghlan-road, Subiaco, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 2 and 3.

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The Lake Preston Lodge camp boat and canoe, ca.1914

De Bernales engaged Melbourne architect Bernard Evans to design the London Court Arcade in association with local consulting firms Oldham, Boas and Ednie-Brown, Architects. Structural engineering consultant was Clive Steele of Melbourne. Construction commenced in August 1936 and took less than 12 months to complete at a cost of £80,000

• KC00064935 Karrakatta Cremation

Sources

• WWI Pictorial Honour Roll of West Australians

1. ↑ Max Poole, Boas, Harold (1883–1980), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
   published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 27 October 2018.
2. ↑ genealogysa
3. ↑ The West Australian
   (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) Thu 27 Apr 1911 Page 1 Family Notices