John Rattenbury, architect and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright who was the child observer of a notorious murder case – obituary
Rattenbury was six at the time of Villa Madeira case; he later worked on the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Price Tower in Oklahoma
John Rattenbury in 1950
John Rattenbury, who has died aged 92, was an eminent architect with a practice in America and worked for many years with Frank Lloyd Wright; in his childhood in the 1930s, he was also the bewildered young bystander in the notorious British murder case that inspired Terence Rattigan’s final play Cause Célèbre.