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SIR WILLIAM TITE (1798-1873)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1019 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:TITE (1798-1873)  , See also:British architect, the son of a See also:Russian See also:merchant, was See also:born in See also:London in See also:February 1798 . From 1817 to 1820 he assisted in the rebuilding of the See also:body of the See also:church of St See also:Dunstan-in-the-See also:East, and in compiling its See also:history . Between 1827 and 1828 he built the Scottish church, See also:Regent Square, for See also:Edward See also:Irving, and ten years later collaborated with See also:Charles See also:Robert See also:Cockerell in designing the London & See also:Westminster See also:Bank, Lothbury . The rebuilding of the Royal See also:Exchange, opened in 1844, was, however, See also:Tite's greatest I 0 I 9 undertaking . He also designed' many of the See also:early railway stations in See also:England, including the termini of the London & See also:South-Western railway at See also:Vauxhall (Nine Elms) and See also:Southampton; the See also:terminus at Blackwall, 184o; the citadel station at See also:Carlisle, 1847-1848; the See also:majority of the stations on the Caledonian and Scottish Central See also:railways, including See also:Edinburgh, 1847-1848; See also:Chiswick, 1849; See also:Windsor, 1850; and the stations on the See also:Exeter & See also:Yeovil railway . The stations on the See also:line from See also:Havre to See also:Paris are also his See also:work . Between 1853 and 1$54 he planned the See also:Woking See also:Cemetery, and between 1858 and 1.859 he built a memorial church in the See also:Byzantine See also:style at Gerrard's See also:Cross, See also:Buckinghamshire . Tite's active work ceased about twenty years before his See also:death . In 1851 he visited See also:Italy after a See also:grave illness . In 1854 he contested See also:Barnstaple unsuccessfully as a Liberal, but in the following See also:year was returned to See also:parliament for See also:Bath, which he represented until his death . He keenly opposed See also:Sir See also:George See also:Gilbert See also:Scott's proposal to build the new See also:foreign See also:office and other See also:government buildings adjacent to the See also:treasury in the See also:Gothic style . In 1869 he was knighted, and in 187o was made a See also:Companion of the Bath .

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

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