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SACHS, Edwin Otho (1870–1919), architect, fire researcher, promoter of reinforced concrete and a founder of the Concrete Institute, was born at 16 Marlborough Hill, St. John's Wood, London, on 5 April 1870, the elder son of Gustav Sachs, a merchant originally from Hamburg, and Nanny his wife.

He was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and moved to Germany to pursue his studies as an architect. After serving as a government pupil at the Imperial Law Courts, Leipzig, he studied at the Koniglich Technishe Hochshule in Charlottenburg, and worked as an assistant to Ende & Boeckmann, designers of the Japanese parliament building. He qualified as an architect in 1892, at the age of 22, and commenced practice on his own account from an office in Waterloo Place. In 1896 he married Flora Jacobi of Hamburg and set up home at 5 Ulster Terrace, Regent's Park where in 1897 he added an upper storey.