SIR

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• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM

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• SIR WILLIAM TITE (1798-1873)

TITE (1798-1873)  , British architect, the son of a Russian merchant, was born in London in February 1798 . From 1817 to 1820 he assisted in the rebuilding of the body of the church of St Dunstan-in-the-East, and in compiling its history . Between 1827 and 1828 he built the Scottish church, Regent Square, for Edward Irving, and ten years later collaborated with Charles Robert Cockerell in designing the London & Westminster Bank, Lothbury . The rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, opened in 1844, was, however, Tite's greatest I 0 I 9 undertaking . He also designed' many of the early railway stations in England, including the termini of the London & South-Western railway at Vauxhall (Nine Elms) and Southampton; the terminus at Blackwall, 184o; the citadel station at Carlisle, 1847-1848; the majority of the stations on the Caledonian and Scottish Central railways, including Edinburgh, 1847-1848; Chiswick, 1849; Windsor, 1850; and the stations on the Exeter & Yeovil railway . The stations on the line from Havre to Paris are also his work . Between 1853 and 1$54 he planned the Woking Cemetery, and between 1858 and 1.859 he built a memorial church in the Byzantine style at Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire . Tite's active work ceased about twenty years before his death . In 1851 he visited Italy after a grave illness . In 1854 he contested Barnstaple unsuccessfully as a Liberal, but in the following year was returned to parliament for Bath, which he represented until his death . He keenly opposed Sir George Gilbert Scott's proposal to build the new foreign office and other government buildings adjacent to the treasury in the Gothic style . In 1869 he was knighted, and in 187o was made a Companion of the Bath .

He died on the loth of

April 1873 . Tite had a wide knowledge of English literature and was a good linguist; he was an active citizen and a lover of old books .