Lieutenant Colonel Goymour Ranson Cuthbert VD ARIBA (1848–1902) was an English architect based in London.
Lieutenant Colonel Goymour Ranson Cuthbert VD ARIBA (1848–1902) was an English architect based in London.
He was born on 25 February 1849 in Paternoster Row, London, the son of John Ranson Cuthbert (1804–1876) and Sarah Mary Ann Hayward (1819–1889) and baptised on 3 April 1849 in Little Blakenham, Suffolk.
On 18 June 1883 he married Marion Linford (1857–1941) in St Mary's Church, Finchley and they had the following children.
He died on 26 February 1902 in Eastbourne, Sussex leaving an estate valued at £6879 (equivalent to £731,000 in 2025).
He joined the London Rifle Brigade as a private in July 1870 and took a commission in March 1885. He was promoted captain in April 1893 and received the honorary rank of major in November 1897 and the substantive rank in April 1901. He was made Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1902. He was an authority on tactics on which he lectured at the London Rifle Brigade headquarters, and before the Metropolitan Sergeants’ Tactical Association, a frequent umpire at War Games. In April 1900 he received a special certificate from the War Office as a qualified lecturer.
He was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration in 1898.
He was pupil of architects Sir Henry Arthur Hunt, Charles Stephenson and Harry Jones. He was appointed an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1882.
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