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Wyatt, Sir Matthew Digby
architect; b. 28 June 1820; d. 21 May 1877.
The youngest son of Matthew Wyatt, and English barrister. In 1844-1846 he traveled on the Continent. He was secretary of the executive committee of the great exhibition of 1851, and assisted in making the plans for it. In 1855 he was appointed surveyor of the East India Company. He was honorary secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1855 to 1859. Wyatt published An Architect's Note-book in Spain (London, 1872, 1 vol. 4to); Specimens of Ornamental Art Workmanship in Gold and Bronze from the Twelfth to the Ninteenth Centuries (London, 1852, large folio); Specimens of the Geometrical Mosaic of the Middle Ages (London, 1848, folio), etc.
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