Richard Norman Shaw designs Bedford Park, London’s…

Richard Norman Shaw designs Bedford Park, London’s first garden suburb, in 1878.

An associate of William Morris, Shaw had trained in the London office of William Burn with George Edmund Street and attended the Royal Academy classes, receiving a thorough grounding in classicism, and had met William Eden Nesfield, with whom he was briefly in partnership., an associate of William Morris,

He had traveled with a Royal Academy scholarship in 1854—1856,  collecting sketches that were published as Architectural Sketches from the Continent, in 1858.

In 1863, after sixteen years of training, he had opened a practice for a short time with Nesfield.

Shaw had been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1872.

He works, among others, for the artists John Callcott Horsley and George Henry Boughton, and the industrialist Lord Armstrong.

He has designed large houses such as Cragside and Grim's Dyke, as well as a series of commercial buildings in a wide range of styles.

Shaw had been elected to the Royal Academy in 1877.