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 In progress The Wyatt family included several of the major English architects across the eighteenth and ninetheenth centuries.

The Family

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Benjamin Wyatt

Benjamin 1709 -1772

William Wyatt

William 1734-1780, son of Benjamin

Samuel Wyatt

Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807) was a member of a leading family of 18th and 19th century English architects.

James Wyatt

James Wyatt (August 3 1746September 4 1813), was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical style, who far outdid Adam in his work in the neo-Gothic style.

Charles Wyatt

Charles Wyatt (1758 – 1813), was an architect who worked in India, he was a nephew of James Wyatt.

Jeffry Wyattville

Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766 - 1840) was an English architect and garden designer.

Benjamin Dean Wyatt

Benjamin Dean Wyatt (17751852) was an English architect. He was the eldest son and pupil of the architect James Wyatt.

Lewis Wyatt

Lewis Wyatt (1777 - 1853) was an English architect, a nephew of James Wyatt

Philip Wyatt

Philip Wyatt, (? – 1835), was an English architect, the youngest son of the architect James Wyatt nephew of Samuel Wyatt, cousin to Sir Jeffry Wyattville.

Matthew Digby Wyatt

Sir (Matthew) Digby Wyatt (28 July 182021 May 1877) was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge.

Thomas Henry Wyatt

Thomas Henry Wyatt, a British architect, (9 May 1807 - 5 August 1880).[1] He had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1870-73[2]and awarded their Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1873.[3] His reputation during his lifetime was largely as a safe establishment figure and critical assessment has been less favourable more recently, particularly in comparison with his elder brother, the better known Matthew Digby Wyatt.

References

  1. ^ Obituary in Builder get proper citation
  2. ^ APSD entry
  3. ^ List provided by RIBA
  • The Wyatts An Architectural Dynasty by John Martin Robinson 1979, Oxford University Press