High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Bradshaw Gass (18 June 1855 to 3 July 1939) British Architect and Artist. Gass was a nephew of J. J. Bradshaw, the founder of Bradshaw Gass Hope. He received the Ashbury Prize for Civil Engineering at Owens College (later Manchester University). He assisted Sir Ernest George in London before, in 1880, becoming a pupil of his uncle in Bolton. When Gass became a partner, in 1882, the firm adopted the style Bradshaw Gass.