Edward Middleton Barry [also known as Edward M. Barry and as E. M. Barry] was born in London, England on 7 June 1830 and was the third son of the architect Sir Charles Barry (1875-1860). He trained as an architect at King's College, London and at the Royal Academy Schools in London, and, after briefly working in the office of Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807-1880), joined his father's practice in London. He assisted his father on a number of his commissions and following the death of the latter in 1860, took over his practice.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1855, and a Fellow of the Royal institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1860. He was also elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1861, and a full Academician (RA) in 1869. Between 1873 and 1880 he was the Royal Academy Professor of Architecture. He died in London on 27 January 1880.
Works by Edward Middleton Barry included Birmingham and Midland Institute in Birmingham (1855); St. Saviour's Church in Hampstead, London (1856); Leeds Grammar School in Leeds, Yorkshire (1857); Royal Opera House, Bow Street, London (1857-58); Floral Hall, Bow Street, London (1858-60); St.-Giles-in-the-Fields National Schools, Endell Street, London (1860); Completion of Halifax Town Hall, Yorkshire, begun by Charles Barry (1860-63); Cannon Street Station Hotel, London (1861); Birmingham Free Public Library (1861); Barbon Park Lodge, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland (1863); Royal Opera House, Valletta, Malta (1864); Mansion Hotel, Richmond, Surrey (1864); Schools in Canford, Dorset (1865); Additions to the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond Hill, London (1865); Charing Cross Hotel, Charing Cross, London (1865); Cannon Street Hotel in Cannon Street, London (1865); Crewe Hall, Chester, Cheshire (1866-71); Temple Gardens Building, Middle Temple Lane, London (1870); Entrance stair of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1870-75); Wykehurst Park, near Slaugham, Sussex (1871-74); The Exchange, Bristol (1872); The Hospital For Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London (1872); Cobham Park, Cobham, Surrey (1873); St Anne's Church, Clifton, near Eccles, Salford, Lancashire (1874); Additions to Stancliffe Hall, near Matlock, Derbyshire (1879); Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street Station, with Charles Barry, Jnr. (1879-84).
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Avery, Derek. Victorian and Edwardian Architecture. London: Chaucer Press, 2003
Cornforth, John. ‘The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge’. Country Life vol. 132, 22 November 1962 pp. 1278-1281 [Discusses the completion by Barry in the 1870s of George Basevi’s competion-winning scheme of 1835 for the interiors of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Part one of a two-part article]
Cornforth, John. ‘The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge’. Country Life vol. 132, 29 November 1962 pp. 1340-1343 [Discusses the completion by Barry in the 1870s of George Basevi’s competion-winning scheme of 1835 for the interiors of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Part two of a two-part article]
Dixon, Roger and Muthesius, Stefan. Victorian Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Girouard, Mark. The Victorian Country House. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, revised and enlarged edition, 1979
Hussey, Christopher. ‘Covent Garden Opera House’. Country Life vol. 103, 25 June 1948 pp. 1278-1281 [Discusses the Royal Opera House, Bow Street, London, designed by barry and built in 1857-58]
‘Obituary’. American Architect & Building News vols. 7-8, 1889 pp. 41, 66, 83-84
‘Obituary’. American Art Review vol. 1, 1880 pp. 201-204
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 38, 31 January 1880 p. 123
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 38, 7 February 1880 pp. 147-150
‘Obituary’. Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects pp. 201-204
‘Obituary: Edward Middleton Barry, R.A., 1830-1880)’. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers vol. 63, 1881 pp. 322-326
Whiffen, Marcus. 'Edward M. Barry' in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects Volume 1. Edited by Adolf K. Plakzek. New York and London: Macmillan and Free Press, 1982 p. 147