Regency Personalities Series-Samuel Wyatt

Regency Personalities Series


In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.



Samuel Wyatt

September 8 1737-February 8 1807

Samuel Wyatt

Wyatt was a member of the famed Wyatt family which included many architects. In his twenties, Wyatt had become a master carpenter. Also a clerk of works for Robert Adam at Kedleston Hall. Samuel later worked with his brother James Wyatt on the Pantheon in London. Samuel designed country houses like Tatton Park, Trinity House and Digswell House.

He designed the Albion Mills, which was the first to be powered by steam engines, he patented designs for cast iron bridges. He designed model farm buildings, cottages, and several lighthouses.

From 1784 to 1807 Samuel worked on Holkham Hall estate, designing several farms, ‘The Great Barn’,a new kitchen garden and ‘The Vinery’. He used a simplified new-classical style.

He designed Soho House for his friend Matthew Boulton. Boulton had recommended him to the proprietors of the Theatre Royal of Birmingham in 1777, and in 1780, a portico designed by Wyatt was built. It is also believed that Boulton recommended him to James Watt, for whom Wyatt designed Heathfield House. Sameul also designed Moseley Hall.

With Charles Tatham Samuel designed Dropmore House for Lord Grenville, the Prime Minister. At the turn of the 18th century he remodeled and extended Shugborough Hall for Viscount Anson.

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