Matthew Digby Wyatt [SEP] date of birth
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. From 1855 until 1859 he was honorary secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1866 received the Royal Gold Medal.
Life.
Born in Rowde, Wiltshire, Wyatt trained as an architect in the office of his elder brother,
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Newells, the house.
The house occupied by the school when at Lower Beeding had been built c.1869 as a private residence to the designs of Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, as mentioned in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6. From 1855 until 1859 Matthew Digby Wyatt was honorary