Regency architect Michael Searles (1750-1813) was famous as an English commercial architect of large houses, particularly in London. His most notable achievement is perhaps The Paragon in Blackheath. Searles was the son of a Greenwich surveyor, also named Michael Searles (c.1722-1799), who served (from 1765) as surveyor to Morden College in Blackheath. Wikipedia
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