Wyatt family

The Wyatt family included several of the major English architects across the eighteenth and ninetheenth centuries.

The Family

This is a summary tree to show the linkages. It is an extract from the tree in Robinson 1979

Benjamin Wyatt

Benjamin (1709 -1772)

William Wyatt

William 1734-1780, son of Benjamin

amuel Wyatt

Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807), son of Benjamin.

Joseph

Joseph Wyatt (1739-1785)), son of Benjamin

Benjamin Wyatt II

Benjamin Wyatt (1744 - 1818), son of Benjamin.

James Wyatt

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

Charles Wyatt

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

Jeffry Wyattville

Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766 - 1840) was an English architect and garden designer.

Benjamin Dean Wyatt

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

Matthew Cotes Wyatt

Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777-1862), son of James Wyatt, a painter and sculptor.

Lewis Wyatt

Lewis Wyatt (1777 - 1853) was an English architect, son of Benjamin 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 Samuel Wyatt, cousin to Sir Jeffry Wyattville.

Matthew Digby Wyatt

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.

Thomas Henry Wyatt

Thomas Henry Wyatt, a British architect, (9 May 1807 - 5 August 1880).

References

*"The Wyatts An Architectural Dynasty" by John Martin Robinson 1979, Oxford University Press