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McQueen died at his home
in Tiverton Road Plumstead
on 3 July 1939, aged fty-
three. He was survived by his
wife Janet and ve children,
two boys and three girls.

Pilkington died in London,
aged eighty-two, in November
1968. He was survived by his
wife Greeba (neé Price) and
twin daughters.

Roberts, Hubert (1896-
Coolarty
1961) FRIBA (1948)

Hubert Roberts was born in Johannesburg and was educated at St.
Andrew’s College, Grahamstown. He was articled to Baker and Kendall in

Cape Town in 1914. He served with the 5 S.A. Infantry in German East
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Africa in the Great War (1914-18) and worked for Fred Glennie on his return
from service. He set up his own practice in 1926 and in partnership with
Leslie Lewis Small (1929-39) he did additions to Villa Capri for Mr. F.H.
Trill as well as the design of Denique, Jacobs Ladder, for Rex. S. Walker.
In 1948, once again on his own account, he did alterations to Iris Villa, 26
Main Road for Parliamentarian Arthur G. Barlow. Here he extended the
double gable home which Barlow duly named Twee Gevels.

Seeliger, Johan Carl Ernst (1863-1938)

Known throughout his life as Ernst he was born in Paarl in 1863 of
German parents. He studied architecture at the Bougewerkschule in Berlin
where he qualied as an architect in 1889, after which
he returned to Cape Town to set up ofces in 1890 in
Keesom Street where he practised until 1936. He
was an avid supporter of the Cape Dutch Revival
architecture as was seen in his design of the home
Dunkeld, 3 Westray Road St. James, for Westray
Bell (after whom the road was named in 1915). One

of Seeliger’s clients was Messrs. E.K. Green & Co.,
the liquor merchants, where he designed in October
1913, stables, a forage room and a cart shelter for
them on Main Road Kalk Bay. This building, No.
84 & 86 Main Road stands opposite Kalk Bay railway
Ernst Seeliger - 1905