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Philip Webb
b. Oxford, 1831;
d. Worth, Sussex, 1915.1
Philip Webb - As close friend of William Morris, friend and mentor to W. R. Lethaby, the chief technical adviser and instructor to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the designer of a relatively few but hugely influential major houses Webb became the principal instrument through [...]

George Edmund Street
b. Woodford, Essex, 1824;
d. London, 1881.
George Edmund Street,a leading British practitioner and theorist of High Victorian Gothic. After three years in the office of Owen Carter of Winchester, he worked in Scott’s London office 1845-9. He practised in Oxford (1852-6) and subsequently in London. A member of the Ecclesiological Society, he was [...]