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Architect Personal Details

Surname

Garlick

First name

Arthur Daniel Bendle

Gender

Male

Born

1862

Died

27/01/1901

Biography

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Arthur Daniel Bendle Garlick was born in 1862, the son of early South Australian colonist Daniel Garlick (1818-1902) and Lucy Poole (nee King) who had married in 1861. He had two brothers, John and Reginald, and one sister. Following his schooling, his father, Adelaide architect Daniel Garlick took Arthur as an articled pupil. Daniel and Arthur Garlick then formed a partnership named D. Garlick and Son on 19 June 1884 (‘Advertising’ 1884:1). Together with his father, Arthur Garlick was one of the first members of the South Australian Institute of Architects, joining in 1886 (SAIA Roll Book, S347/1). However a period of financial trouble in South Australia combined with bad harvests forced Arthur Garlick to look interstate for work in 1887, touring ‘the other colonies, working later that year in Melbourne for A.E. Duguid, and for Ellerker and Kilburn’ (Watson and McKay 1994: 80). He must have returned to Adelaide during 1890 as on 8 April he married Amelia Haussen at St Michael’s Church, Mitcham (‘Family Notices’ 1890:4).

During 1887, Daniel Garlick’s articled pupil, Herbert Jackman cut short his articles and moved to western New South Wales where silver mining had led to the construction of the new town of Broken Hill. There, with had more architectural work than he could comfortably handle and in 1891 Arthur Garlick joined Jackman in partnership as Garlick and Jackman. Later, on 1 June 1892, the practices of D. Garlick and Son, Architects of Adelaide and Garlick and Jackman, Architects of Broken Hill, combined to form Garlick, Jackman and Garlick with offices in Adelaide and Broken Hill, (‘Advertising’ 1892:3). Difficult industrial circumstances forced Herbert Jackman to return to Adelaide in 1893 and the practice of Garlick, Jackman and Garlick lasted a further six years. When Daniel Garlick retired in 1899 and with Arthur Garlick having left the practice to pursue other interests in Queensland, Herbert Jackman continued as a sole practitioner under the name of Garlick and Jackman into the twentieth century. This partnership was the basis of the present day JPE Design Studio, South Australia’s oldest surviving continuously practising architectural firm.

According to Watson and McKay (1994: 80), Arthur Garlick had moved to Queensland in 1893 where he worked as a ‘wine and spirit merchant with the Queensland Brewery at Bulimba for some time before acquiring a small sugar farm near Nambour. From there he was appointed a temporary draftsman in the Queensland Public Works Department in February 1899, as one of an influx of southern recruits hired to work on the new Land Administration Building’ (Watson and McKay 1994: 80). He gained his qualifications as a Public Works Inspector for the Department of Works in Queensland in 1900 (‘Inspectors of Works’ 1900: 7). ‘He left the Department in January 1901 to take a position as clerk of works at Townsville’ (Watson ad McKay 1994: 80). In 1901 Arthur Garlick moved to Maryborough, Queensland where he worked as an architect, opening the Maryborough office of Messrs. Eaton, Bates and Garlick who were based in Rockhampton. (‘Messrs. Eaton and Bates’ 1901: 4). Within the year however Arthur Garlick had died, succumbing to blood poisoning at Maryborough Hospital on 27 June 1901, aged just 39 years.

Julie Collins

Citation details
Collins, Julie, ‘Garlick, Arthur Daniel Bendle’, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia, 2013, Architects of South Australia: [http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/arch_full.asp?Arch_ID=120]

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Architectural works in South Australia

Name Suburb Year Designed
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Firms or Professional Partnerships

Name Dates Worked
Daniel Garlick 188?-1884 
D. Garlick and Son 1884-1887 
A.E. Duguid (Melbourne) 1887- 
Elleker and Kilburn (Melbourne) 188?-1891? 
Garlick, Jackman and Garlick (Broken Hill office) 1892- 
Queensland Public Works Department 1899-1901 
Messrs. Eaton, Bates and Garlick (Queensland) 1901-1901 
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Bibliographic Sources

Name

PUBLISHED
Books
Page, M. (1986) Sculptors in Space, South Australian Architects 1836-1986, RAIA SA Chapter, Adelaide.
Thomas, Jan (ed), (1990) South Australians, 1836-1885, South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc., Marden.

Newspapers
‘Advertising’, Barrier Miner (Broken Hill), 4 June 1892, online at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44074079
‘Advertising’, South Australian Weekly Chronicle, 21 June 1884: 1, online at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93147282
‘Family Notices’, The Queenslander (Brisbane), 6 July 1901: 8, online at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21264059
'Family Notices', South Australian Chronicle, 26 April 1890: 4, online at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91276850
‘Inspectors of Works’, The Brisbane Courier, 26 September 1900: 7, online at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19053507
‘Messrs. Eaton and Bates’, Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton), 20 April 1900: 4, online at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52727758
‘Queensland News’, The Capricornian (Rockhampton), 29 June 1901: 23, online at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68253102

UNPUBLISHED
Reports
Collins, Julie and Christine Garnaut (2002) "Jackman Gooden Pilot Study 1851-1938", unpublished report, copy held at Architecture Museum, University of South Australia.
Lapins, R. (1982) Daniel Garlick: 20 January 1818-28 September 1902. Biography of a pioneer Architect, unpublished, copy held at JPE Design Studio
Nayda, P.J. (1981) A concise description of the origins of Jackman, Gooden, Scott and Swan Pty. Ltd., unpublished, copy held at JPE Design Studio

Archival
South Australian Institute of Architects (SAIA) Roll Book, Jack Cheesman collection S347/1, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia
Jackman Gooden collection, BRG 238, State Library of South Australia.

Other
Jackman, Gooden, Scott and Swan (1981) ‘130 Years of Architecture: An Exhibition’, exhibition catalogue, copy held at State Library of South Australia.

ELECTRONIC
Websites
Australian Heritage Places Inventory, online at http://www.heritage.gov.au/ahpi/
Manning Index 1837-1937 South Australian newspapers, online at http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning
State Library of South Australia catalogue, online at http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au
National Library of Australia, Trove, online at http://trove.nla.gov.au/

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