Draftsman, William W. Wurster, Architect, San Francisco, CA, before 1940; Assistant Project Planner, Federal Public Housing Authority, San Francisco, CA, c. 1939-1942; Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, Naval Communications, 1942-1945; Architect Project Planner, San Francisco Housing Authority, San Francisco, CA, 1949-c.1961; Chief Planner and Contracting Planner, San Francisco Housing Authority, San Francisco, CA, 1961-1968; for the San Francisco Housing Authority, Partridge worked on low-rent housing; Architect, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco, CA; Architect, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, San Francisco, CA, 1968-1988; "Gryff" Partridge, as he was known to friends and colleagues, retired in 1988;

Partridge was a Registered Architect in CA in 1962; he joined the Northern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1961.

B.Arch., University of California, Berkeley, 1937; In 1940, Partridge, along with other friends from the University of California--Francis Violich (1911-2005), Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000), Francis Joseph McCarthy (1910-1965)--founded the influential Bay Area planning organization, Telesis.

Born in Seattle, WA, Gryffyd lived his formative years in Oakland, CA, nearby to Mills College. As a teenager c. 1932, he spent time in Los Angeles, acting as a driver for his mother, who was often on assignment photographing movie stars for Vanity Fair magazine. He spent four years in Berkeley at the University of California, from c. 1933-1937. For most of his adult life Gryffyd lived in Marin County and worked in and around San Francisco. Toward the end of his life, he resided at the Tamalpais retirement community in Greenbrae, CA, and passed away at the Hospice of Marin, in Corte Madera, CA.

His mother was the well-known photographer, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976); his father, was the artist, Roi George Partridge (1888-1984), who gained considerable fame as an etcher. Roi Partridge married three times; hhis marriage to Cunningham lasted from 1915-1934, at which time he wed artist Marion Lyman. She died prematurely in 1940 of cancer, and he married again to May Fisher. His father taught at Mills College in Oakland, CA, from 1920 to1954, when he retired. During his 34-year tenure, he had been Head of the Arts Department, as well as the first Director of the Mills College Art Gallery; Gryffyd's two red-headed younger brothers, twins, were Rondal (b. 1917), a well-known photographer, and Padraic (1917-2001). At Gryffyd's death, Rondal lived in Berkeley and, Padraic, Chatsworth, CA.

Gryffyd married Janet Partridge, 07/1941. She survived him at his death, and lived in Santa Cruz, CA.

Partridge had two children: Rym, a son, and a daughter, Lauren. In 1999, Rym lived in Santa Cruz, CA, Loren, in San Francisco.

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