Matthew Digby Wyatt
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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.
Born in Rowde, Wyatt trained as an architect in the office of his elder brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt. He assisted Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the London terminus of the Great Western Railway at Paddington Station (1854) and later designed a considerable expansion to the Bristol station, Bristol Temple Meads (1871–8). He also enlarged and rebuilt Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (Now the Judge Institute of Management; 1866).
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 Office in London (now part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office; 1867) and the Royal Indian Engineering College (now the Runnymede campus of Brunel University; 1871–3).
[edit] External links
- Matthew Digby Wyatt at the Duke University Dictionary of Art Historians
