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Where did Thomas Hardy train as an architect?

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Thomas Hardy began his architectural training in 1856 when he was apprenticed to a local architect named John Hicks. In 1862, he moved to London to work as a draftsman for the prominent ecclesiastical architect Arthur Blomfield.1

Following a period of ill health that forced his return to Dorset in 1867, Hardy resumed his architectural work, serving again under Hicks and later for the Weymouth-based architect G.R. Crickmay.1