The Wyatt family included several of the major English architects during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a significant 18th century inventor, John Wyatt (1700–1766), the eldest son of John Wyatt (1675–1742). Wyatt family vault

The family

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Benjamin Wyatt

Benjamin (1709–1772), of Blackbrook, Staffordshire, sixth of the eight sons of John Wyatt, married Mary Wright and had seven sons and three daughters.

William Wyatt

William (1734–1780), eldest son of Benjamin's ten children; married his cousin, Sarah, daughter of his father Benjamin's elder brother, William. He had four sons: Charles, Henry, Robert Harvey, and Samuel. Robert Harvey Wyatt was great-great grandfather of the politician Woodrow Wyatt.

Samuel Wyatt

Samuel Wyatt Samuel Wyatt (8 September 1737, Weeford, Staffs. – London, 8 February 1807) was an English architect and engineer. A member of the Wyatt family, which included several notable 18th- and 19th-century English architects, his work was primarily in a ...

(1737–1807), third son of Benjamin.

Joseph Wyatt

Joseph Wyatt (1739–1785), fourth son of Benjamin. He married his cousin, Myrtilla, daughter of William Wyatt (1702–1772).

Benjamin Wyatt II

Benjamin Wyatt (1744–1818), fifth son of Benjamin. He married Sarah, daughter and co-heiress of William Forde, and had seven sons and six daughters. His sixth son, James Wyatt, lived at Bryn Gwynant, Caernarvonshire, and was head of that branch of the family of Wyatt, later of Hurst Barton Manor, Somerset.

James Wyatt

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

neo-Gothic style Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

. Sixth son of Benjamin (1709–1772).

Charles Wyatt

Charles Wyatt (1758–1813) was an architect who worked in India; eldest son of William Wyatt (1734–1780) and a nephew of James Wyatt.

Jeffry Wyattville

Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766–1840) was an architect and garden designer. Son of Joseph Wyatt.

Benjamin Dean Wyatt

Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1775–1852) was an architect. He was the eldest son and pupil of the architect James Wyatt.

Matthew Cotes Wyatt

Matthew Cotes Wyatt Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777 – 3 January 1862) was a painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well known in the Victorian era as architects and sculptors. Early life Wyatt was born in London, the son of the architect James ...

(1777–1862), second son of James Wyatt; a painter and sculptor.

Lewis Wyatt

Lewis Wyatt (1777–1853) was an English architect, son of Benjamin Wyatt II and a nephew of James Wyatt.

Philip William Wyatt

Philip William Wyatt (?–1835) was an English architect, the youngest son of the architect James Wyatt nephew of

, cousin to Sir Jeffry Wyattville.

Matthew Digby Wyatt

Sir (Matthew) Digby Wyatt (28 July 1820 – 21 May 1877) was an architect and

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who became Secretary of the

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, Surveyor of the

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and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the

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Thomas Henry Wyatt

Thomas Henry Wyatt Thomas Henry Wyatt (9 May 1807 – 5 August 1880) was an Anglo-Irish architect. He had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1870–73 and being awarded its Royal Gold Medal for A ...

(9 May 1807 – 5 August 1880), a noted architect.

Sir Matthew Wyatt

Sir Matthew Wyatt (1805–1886), architect and son of

. He built and designed

Victoria Square, London Victoria Square is a small, rectangular garden square 50 metres south of the remaining stables of The Royal Mews (on the large green block taken up by Buckingham Palace) and 150 metres north of Victoria bus station (which stands in fron ...

(1838–40), created houses in Stanhope Terrace, Westbourne and Bathurst Streets, and developed land bounded by Connaught, Southwick, and Hyde Park Streets and Hyde Park Square. He was also involved in the redevelopment of 50

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(1849).Sheppard, FHW (London, 1977). Survey of London: Volume 39, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 1 (General History). London County Council.

References

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