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Edwin Landseer Lutyens

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29/03/1869

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01/01/1944

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Edwin Landseer Lutyens was born in London on 29 March 1869, eleventh of the fourteen children of Captain Charles Henry Augustus Lutyens of the XX Foot (Lancashire Fusiliers) who had retired early to become a landscape and sporting painter; his mother, Mary Galloway, born an Irish Catholic, was also of a military family. His forenames commemorated his father's friendship with Sir Edwin Landseer.

As a child Landseer suffered from poor health and was partly educated by his mother at Thursley, Surrey. His father, his elder brother Fred and another of this father's artist friends, Randolph Caldecott, all taught him drawing, and like Lorimer he learned about traditional crafts by observing builders at work in his home village. In 1885 he entered the South Kensington Schools to study architecture, and in 1887 he obtained a place in the office of Ernest George & Peto, working under their assistant, Herbert Baker: E Guy Dauber was also in the office at the time, and either in twos or threes they went on sketching trips in Surrey, Sussex and Wales. Early in 1889 he received the commission for a large house at Crooksbury and set up his own practice, based at Farnham at the age of twenty, and early became acquainted with the gardener Gertrude Jekyll for whom he built Munstead Wood in 1896. She developed his ideas on the relationship of house and garden and introduced him to many of his early clients and to Lady Emily Lytton, daughter of a former Viceroy to India. Her mother was a lady in waiting at The Court, and it was through her that he was introduced to HRH Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who commissioned the Inn in her estate at Roseneath in 1896.

Further commissions from within the Jekyll and Lytton circles enabled him to marry Lady Emily in 1897 and his work attracted the attention of 'Country Life,' building Deanery Garden for its proprietor Edward Hudson in 199-1902, and its offices in Covent Garden in 1904. Lutyens neither had the time nor the inclination to take the qualifying exam. He was admitted FRIBA on 8 January 1906, his proposers being the leaders of the profession, John Belcher, Aston Webb and Sir John Taylor.

Lutyens's practice assumed a monumental Imperil dimension when he was commissioned to design the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910 and the Rand Regents Memorial in 1911. In the following year he was appointed architect to the Delhi Planning Commission, an appointment that caused John Begg Counselling Architect to the Government of India, considerable disappointment and led to a difficult relationship between them. For this he worked in collaboration with Herbert Baker.

Lutyens was elected ARA a year later in 1913, and Knighted in 1918. Election to the RA followed after the war in 1920; the Royal Gold Medal in 1921; the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1924; the Presidency of the Royal Academy in 1938; and the OM in 1942. Lutyens died of cancer on 1 January 1944.

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
16 Onslow Street London England	Private
29 Bloomsbury Square London England	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
28 Craven Street Charing Cross London England	Business	1890
17 Queen Anne's Gate Westminster London England	Business	1914

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The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Ernest George & Peto	100285	In year 1887	c. 1889	Apprentice	Under Herbert Baker
(Sir) Herbert Baker	200106	In year 1887	c. 1889	Apprentice	Lutyens worked under Baker, chief assistant to George & Peto
Lutyens & Baker	203985	In year 1912	In year 1913	Partner

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The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position
James Mollison Wilson	203573	1912 or 1913	In year 1915	Assistant
Eric Alexander Hector MacDonald	205163	1924/11	1929/05	Assistant
Kenneth Ogilvie Thoms	401039	1937/09	1938/07	Assistant
Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton	200099	After 1897	In year 1899	Assistant
Frederick Bayliss Nightingale	202311	After 1909	In year 1914	Assistant
Paul Phipps	202834	In year 1901	In year 1904	Apprentice
Albert John Thomas	205164	In year 1902	In year 1932	Assistant
Sydney George Follett	203477	In year 1908	In year 1910	Draughtsman
Verner Owen Rees	204578	In year 1911	In year 1912	Assistant
George Stewart	404048	In year 1911	In year 1944	Chief Assistant
Garnet Alexander Farmer	206584	In year 1911	c. 1915	Assistant
John Hubert Worthington	204946	In year 1912	In year 1914	Assistant
James Macgregor	202192	In year 1914	In year 1915	Draughtsman
Garnet Alexander Farmer	206584	In year 1919	In year 1921	Assistant
(Sir) William Hardie Kininmonth	202942	In year 1929	In year 1931	Assistant

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The following individuals proposed this person for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details):

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Proposer	Proposer Link	Date Proposed	Notes
Aston Webb	200972	1906/01/08	for Fellowship
John Belcher	201657	1906/01/08	for Fellowship
(Sir) John Taylor	202451	1906/01/08	for Fellowship

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Person	Date Proposed	Notes
(Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer	1906/06/11	for Fellowship
Paul Phipps	In year 1911	for Licentiateship
James Macgregor	Late 1914s	for Associateship
Robert Hunter Cameron	1919/03/03	for Associateship
Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton	In year 1920	for Fellowship
William Bryce Binnie (Major)	1925/11/30	for Fellowship
Eric Alexander Hector MacDonald	Early 1930s	for Associateship

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	Island	City or County	Country	Notes
The Hirsel	In year 1886	Coldstream		Berwickshire	Scotland	Scheme drawn up for remodelling the entire house
Holy Trinity Parish Church, reredos	In year 1893	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Northumberland	England
Rosneath Inn	In year 1896	Rosneath / Roseneath		Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Extension
Ferry Inn, Rosneath Point	In year 1896	Rosneath		Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Extension
High Walls	In year 1901	Gullane		East Lothian	Scotland	With Gertrude Jekyll
Theosophical Society Headquarters	In year 1910			London	England
High Walls	In year 1911	Gullane		East Lothian	Scotland	Additions (Kitchen and dining room on north since burnt out) with Lorimer
Lews Castle, hotel in grounds	c. 1920	Stornoway	Lewis	Ross & Cromarty	Scotland	Designs drawn up
Glasgow Cenotaph	In year 1921			Glasgow	Scotland	Invited to submit design in limited competition - unsuccessful
Grosvenor House	In year 1926	Park Lane		London	England	as consultant architect to Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie
Rosehaugh Estate, new Fletcher burial enclosure	In year 1928	Avoch		Ross and Cromarty	Scotland
Villa for David McKenna Soutar	In year 1935	Hampstead Garden Suburb		London	England	Lutyens designed facade, J C S Soutar designed house
City Plan, Hull	In year 1942			Yorkshire East Riding	England
Dunrobin, Sutherland family burial ground, gravestone to Eileen, 5th Ducchess	In year 1943	Dunrobin		Sutherland	Scotland
Corgarff Cemetery, gravestones to the Tennants of Edinglassie	Mid 1900s	Corgarff		Aberdeenshire	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher
Butler, A S G	The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
Irving, Robert Grant	Indian summer: Lutyens Baker and Imperial Delhi	1981
Weaver, Lawrence	Lutyens Houses and Gardens	1921
Hussey, Christopher	The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens
Arts Council	Lutyens: The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens	1981	Arts Council Catalogue, 1981
Brown, Jane	Lutyens and the Edwardians: an English Architect and his Clients
Brown, Jane	Garden of a Golden Afternoon: The Story of a Partnership: Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll
Lutyens, Edwin (check)	The Letters of Edwin Lutyens to his wife Lady Emily

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