Samuel Wyatt at Ramsgate

Abstract

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.