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Sir Jeffrey Wyatville
b. Burton-on-Trent, 1766;
d. London, 1840.
Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, an adaptable and industrious English architect, best known for his remodelling of Windsor Castle. Wyatville was the second son of Joseph Wyatt, a Staffordshire mason and architect. He was apprenticed to his uncles - Samuel and James Wyatt - in London and subsequently set up his [...]

Sir John Soane
b. Goring-on-Thames, 1753;
d. London, 1837.
Sir John Soane’s architecture is in a class by itself; original, mannered, with a brilliant control of internal space and light, and a fondness for shallow domes, repeated segmental arches, clerestories, linear ornament and colour. Whether or not it was his humble origin as the son of a [...]