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Samuel Wyatt at Ramsgate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

J. M. Robinson
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Samuel Wyatt (Fig. 24) is best known as an architect of elegant Neo-Classical country houses. This has overshadowed the fact that he was also an engineer of considerable ability, a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Some light has been thrown on this aspect of his career by recent research into the Albion Mill, particularly Professor A. W. Skempton's article on the subject in this journal recently. Wyatt's talents as an engineer and as a distinguished Neo-Classical architect are both expressed in the buildings he designed for Ramsgate harbour between 1794 and his death in February 1807.

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Research Article
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Architectural History , Volume 16 , 1973 , pp. 54 - 59
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1973

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Notes

1 I am grateful to Professor A. W. Skempton for drawing my attention to Wyatt's election to these societies and for his help and encouragement. I would also like to thank the Librarian at Ramsgate Public Library for recently saving Wyatt's plans from destruction.

2 Skempton, A. W., ‘Samuel Wyatt and the Albion Mill’, Architectural History xiv (1971), pp. 53–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 PRO MT22/32, Ramsgate Harbour Minutes, 5 March 1794.

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5 Birmingham Reference Library, Boulton & Watt Collection, Box 36, Wyatt to Boulton, 20 September 1793.

6 MT22/34, Minutes, 14 October 1803.

7 MT22/32,19 March 1794, and MT22/33, 27 February 1801.

8 ibid., 30 April 1802.

9 MT22/33, 23 January 1801, and MT22/34, 28 January 1803.

10 Ramsgate Public Library, Local History Collection, harbour plans (un-catalogued): plans, elevations and sections for lighthouse signed ‘S. Wyatt, April 1794’.

11 MT22/32, 2 September 1795 and 4 November 1795.

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13 MT22/32, 3 December 1794.

14 ibid., 2 May 1797.

15 MT22/32,28 June 1799.

16 MT22/32, 27 November 1799 and 13 December 1799.

17 Ramsgate Public Library, Local History Collection, harbour plans.

18 MT22/33, 28 May 1802.

19 ibid., 11 September 1801.

20 MT22/34, 13 September 1805.

21 ibid., 31 January 1806.

22 Kent RO, KAO U224.21, ‘A short account of facts relative to Ramsgate Pier and Harbour’.

23 MT22/33, 27 February 1801.

24 ibid.

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26 MT22/34, 7 February 1806.