Crouch & Wilson

CROUCH & WILSON was a Melbourne-based partnership of TJ CROUCH and Ralph WILSON from 1858 until 1881, starting spectacularly by winning the Melbourne General Post Office competition. With a large and successful practice, they undertook numerous ecclesiastical commissions and other major buildings in Victoria and elsewhere in Australia. ‘As a splendid addition to the first-class mercantile establishments of Sydney’ their premises at George St, Sydney, for Frederic Lasseter which was won in competition from 35 English and colonial architects was widely publicized in Queensland. At Brisbane their Union Bank of Australia was – “one of the largest and handsomest buildings” in the town when it was completed in 1867. After the partnership was dissolved in December 1881, Wilson entered partnership as WILSON & BESWICKE and Crouch practised alone but the practice continued, by 1889 by their sons, Sydney Herbert Wilson (1860–1940), Ernest William Marston Crouch (1866–1919) and TJ Crouch’s widow, Mary Emma Bloore Turner (1835–1904).