Arthur Daniel Bendle

1862

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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]