sentences:  He was also architect to the London, Oxford and Cheltenham Railway Company.Between 1842 and 1848, when he started a London office at 14 Whitehall Place, he built up a very large practice in the English midlands.On starting the London office, a move probably prompted by his growing reputation and more specifically by winning the competition to design the 2nd Middlesex County Asylum which became known as the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, the Gloucester practice took into partnership James Medland (1808–94), who had been a fellow pupil of Daukes in Pritchett's office in York, and changed its name to Hamilton & Medland.