Edward Prioleau Warren (1856–1937) trained under George Frederick Bodley and spent most of his career on English churches and Oxford college work in the late Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts manner. He appears in this pool for a single commission far outside that world: the Basra Memorial, unveiled in 1929 for the Imperial War Graves Commission, which records more than forty thousand Commonwealth dead of the Mesopotamian campaign of 1914–1921. Warren is one of a group of British architects the Commission engaged to give its memorials in the newly mandated Middle East an architectural language, and his presence in Iraq is inseparable from the imperial administration that put him there. He never practised in the region and is defined here only because he is the credited designer of a building in it.
