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Matthew Digby Wyatt, 1851

Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (28 July 1820 – 21 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.[1] From 1855 until 1859 he was honorary secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1866 received the Royal Gold Medal.[2]

Life[edit]

Born in Rowde, Wiltshire, Wyatt trained as an architect in the office of his elder brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt. He assisted Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the terminus of the Great Western RailwayatLondon Paddington (1854). He also enlarged and rebuilt Addenbrooke's HospitalinCambridge (1866: now the Judge Institute of Management). He designed the Rothschild Mausoleum in the Jewish Cemetery at West Ham.[3]

In 1851, Wyatt produced the book The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, an imposing imperial folio in two volumes which illustrates a selection of items from the Great Exhibition of 1851.[4] The book, which has won widespread acclaim for the quality of its plates, appeared in two parts, with the first dated 1 October 1851, through to the extra-illustrated title pages dated 15 March 1853. There are 160 chromolithographed plates produced by a team of artists and lithographers including Francis Bedford, J. A. Vinter and Henry Rafter.

He was appointed to the post of Surveyor of the East India Company in 1855, shortly before its role in governing India was taken over by the Crown, and subsequently became Architect to the Council of India. In this role he designed the interiors of the India OfficeinLondon (1867: now part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) and the Royal Indian Engineering College (1871-3: now the Runnymede campus of Brunel University).

A paper on the construction of the exhibition building read before the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1866 was awarded the Telford medal.

His work included, c. 1869, a substantial private residence, known as 'Newells', not far from LeonardsleeatLower Beeding, near Horsham in Sussex, as mentioned in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6. Newells had been occupied as a preparatory school for boys from 1946 until destroyed by fire in 1968. Photographic images of the exterior and interior of the house, when occupied by the prep. school, can be seen at an external link given in the article 'Newells Preparatory School'. His other commissions in Sussex included Possingworth Manor and Oldlands near Herron's Ghyll.[5]

Amongst the extravagant pieces he worked on was Robert Stephenson WorksofNewcastle upon Tyne 1295 of 1862. This 2-2-4T for the Egyptian Railways survives with all its fantastical marquetry in the Egyptian Railway Museum in Cairo.[6] It is called the Khedive's Train.[7][8]

In 1870, for the Secretary of State for India, Wyatt oversaw the conversion of the Elm Grove House estate at Hanwell into the new Royal India Asylum, which opened in August 1870.[9][10]

Selected publications[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wyatt, Matthew Digby (WT820MD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  • ^ Waterhouse, Paul; Robinson, John Martin (2004). "Wyatt, Matthew Digby". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30109. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • ^ Sharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage in England: An Architectural Guide, English Heritage, 2006, p. 35.
  • ^ Leathlean, Howard. The Archaeology of the Art Director? Some Examples of Art Direction in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Publishing. Journal of Design History, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1993), pp. 229–245. Oxford University Press on behalf of Design History Society.
  • ^ Nairn & Pevsner, Ian & Nikolaus (1977). The Buildings of England: Sussex. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. pp. 533, 585. ISBN 0140710280.
  • ^ Clothier, Alan: Robert Stephenson Abroad Egypt 1847–1859: Rocket Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne 2006 page 34.
  • ^ Illustrated at The Rail Museum, Cairo, Egypt - The Khedive Train, Exterior, retrieved 8 February 2014.
  • ^ Arab Republic of Egypt Railways Museum Catalogue, Cairo, 1979, English edition page 98 and plate two pages before.
  • ^ Margaret Makepeace, Lead Curator, East India Company Records, "The Royal Indian Asylum and the building of the railway at Ealing", 9 January 2013
  • ^ A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), Ealing and Brentford: Public services Archived 17 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine Pages 147–149, accessed 11 September 2008
  • ^ "Review of Fine Art by M. Digby Wyatt". The Athenaeum (2279): 22–23. 1 July 1871.
  • ^ Newells photo album
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