sentences:  Daukes was articled about 1827 to James Pigott Pritchett of York, and had set himself up in practice in Gloucester by 1834.His practice also extended to Cheltenham, as his name appears in a list of architects working there in 1841, the year he took into partnership John R. Hamilton.From 1839 to 1842 Daukes was architect to the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, designing clerks' houses, engine sheds, brakesmen's cottages and, in 1840, Lansdown station in Cheltenham.