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SIR CHARLES BARRY (1795-1860)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 444 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:CHARLES See also:BARRY (1795-1860)  , See also:English architect, was See also:born in See also:London on the 23rd of May 1795, the son of a stationer . He was articled to a See also:firm of architects, with whom he remained till 1817, when he set out on a three years' tour in See also:Greece and See also:Italy, See also:Egypt and See also:Palestine for the purpose of studying See also:architecture . On his return to See also:England in 182o he settled in London . One of the first See also:works by which his abilities as an architect became generally known was the See also:church of St See also:Peter at See also:Brighton, completed in 1826 . He built many other churches; but the marked preference for See also:Italian architecture, which he acquired during his travels, showed itself in various important undertakings of his earlier years . In 1831 he completed the Travellers' See also:Club in See also:Pall Mall, a splendid See also:work in the Italian See also:style and the first of its See also:kind built in London . In the same style and "on a grander See also:scale he built in 1837 the Reform Club . He was also engaged on numerous private mansions in London, the finest being See also:Bridgewater See also:House (1847) . See also:Birmingham possesses one of his best works in See also:King See also:Edward's See also:grammar school, built in the Tudor style between 1833 and 1836 . For See also:Manchester he designed the Royal Institution of See also:Fine Arts (1824) and the See also:Athenaeum (1836); and for See also:Halifax the See also:town-See also:hall . He was engaged for some years in reconstructing the See also:Treasury buildings, See also:Whitehall . But his masterpiece, notwithstanding all unfavourable See also:criticism, is the Houses of See also:Parliament at See also:Westminster (184o-186o) .

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Barry was elected A.R.A. in 184o and R.A. in the following See also:year . His See also:genius and achievements were recognized by the representative See also:artistic bodies of the See also:principal See also:European nations; and his name was enrolled as a member of the See also:academies of See also:art at See also:Rome, See also:Berlin, St See also:Petersburg, See also:Brussels and See also:Stockholm . He was chosen F.R.S. in 1849 and was knighted by See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 1852 . He died suddenly at Clapham near London on the 12th of May 186o, and his remains were interred in Westminster See also:Abbey . As a landscape gardener he was no less brilliant than as an architect, and in connexion with the See also:building of the Houses of Parliament he formed See also:schools of modelling, See also:stone and See also:wood See also:carving, See also:cabinet-making, See also:metal-working, See also:glass and decorative See also:painting, and of encaustic See also:tile-making . In 1867 appeared a See also:life of him by his son See also:Bishop See also:Alfred Barry . A claim was thereupon set up on behalf of See also:Pugin, the famous architect, who was dead and who had been Barry's assistant, to a much larger See also:share in the work of designing the Houses of Parliament than was admitted in Dr Barry's narrative . The controversy raged for a See also:time, but without substantiating Pugin's claim . His second son, ALFRED BARRY (1826— ), was educated at King's See also:College, London, and Trinity College, See also:Cambridge, where he was 4th wrangler and gained a first-class in the classical tripos in 1848 . Ile was successively sub-See also:warden of Trinity College, See also:Glenalmond (1849—1854), See also:head-See also:master of See also:Leeds grammar school (1854—1862), principal of See also:Cheltenham College (1862—1868), and principal of King's College, London (1868—1883) . He was See also:canon of See also:Worcester from 1871 to 1881, and of Westminster from 1881 to 1884 . From 1884 to 1889 he served as bishop of See also:Sydney and See also:primate of See also:Australia, and on his return to England he was assistant bishop in the See also:diocese of See also:Rochester from 1889 to 1891, and See also:rector of St See also:James's, Piccadilly, from 1895 to 1900 .

He was appointed canon of See also:

Windsor in 1891 and assistant bishop in See also:West London in 1897 . Besides the life of his See also:father mentioned above, he published numerous theological works . Another son, EDWARD See also:MIDDLETON BARRY (1830-1880), was also an architect . He acted as assistant to his father during the latter years of See also:Sir See also:Charles's life . On the See also:death of his father, the See also:duty of completing the latter's unfinished work devolved upon him . Amongst other buildings thus completed were the Houses of Parliament at Westminster (see ARCHITECTURE, fig . 91, and See also:Plate X. fig . 118), and Halifax town-hall (Id. fig . 9o) . In 1861 he was elected an See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy; and in 1869 a full academician . From 1873 till his death he held the Academy's professorship of architecture . Among other buildings designed by him were Covent See also:Garden See also:theatre, Charing See also:Cross and See also:Cannon See also:Street hotels, the Birmingham and Midland See also:Institute, new galleries for the See also:National See also:Gallery and new See also:chambers for the Inner See also:Temple .

He died on the 27th of See also:

January, 1880 . The youngest son, SIR See also:JOHN See also:WOLFE WOLFE-BARRY (1836- ), the eminent engineer, who assumed the additional name of Wolfe in 1898, was educated at Glenalmond, and was articled as See also:engineering See also:pupil to Sir John See also:Hawkshaw, with whom he was associated in the building of the railway See also:bridges across the See also:Thames at Charing Cross and Cannon Street . In 1867 he began to practise on his own See also:account, and soon gained an extensive connexion with railway companies, both in See also:Great See also:Britain and in other countries . Among the works on which he was engaged were extensions of the See also:Metropolitan See also:District railway, the St See also:Paul's station and See also:bridge of the London, See also:Chatham & See also:Dover railway, the Barry Docks of the Barry railway See also:company near See also:Cardiff, and the See also:Tower and new See also:Kew bridges over the Thames . On the completion of the Tower Bridge in 1894, he was made a C.B., becoming K.C.B. three years later . He served on several royal commissions, including those on Irish Public Works (1886—189o), See also:Highlands and Islands of See also:Scotland (1889—189o), Accidents to Railway Servants (1899—1900), See also:Port of London (1900-1902), and London See also:Traffic (1903—1905) . He was elected See also:president of the Institution of See also:Civil See also:Engineers in 1896, and published books on Railway Appliances (1874), and, with Sir F . J . See also:Bramwell, on See also:Railways and Locomotives (1882) .

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