Edwin Landseer Lutyens was born in London, England, on 29 March 1869 and studied architecture at the National Art Training School in South Kensington, London from 1885 to 1887. He left without finishing the course to become an articled pupil in the office of the architects Ernest George (1839-1922) and Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854-1933) in London. He remained with them for a year before leaving to set up his own practice near Farnham in Surrey in 1889 at the age of nineteen. He subsequently remained in independent private practice for the rest of his career as an architect.
Lutyens was an early supporter of women's suffrage and was one of signaturies to the Men's League for Women's Suffrage's A Declaration of Representaive Men in Favour of Women's Suffrage in 1909. A number of women architects, including Elisabeth Benjamin (1908-1999) and Charlotte Clare Nauheim (1896-1959), received their initial training in his office.
His awards and honours were numerous. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1906. He received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1921 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1924. He was knighted in 1918, and was awarded the Order of Merit in 1942. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1913, full Academician (RA) in 1920, and was President of the Royal Academy (PRA) in 1938. In 1932 the French Government made him an officer of the Légion d'honneur. He died at his home in London on 1 January 1944.
Works by Lutyens included Cottage in Littleworth, Surrey (1889); Crooksbury Lodge, near Farnham Surrey (1890, east wing, 1898); Munstead Wood, near Godalming, Surrey for Gertrude Jekyll (1896); Fulbrook, near Elstead, Surrey (1897); Goddards, Abinger, Surrey (1898); Snatchup End Cottages, Asply, Hertfordshire (1898); Orchards, near Munstead, Surrey (1898-99); Overstrand Hall, Overstrand, Norfolk (1899); Tigbourne Court, near Witley, Surrey (1899-1901); Grey Walls, Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland (1900); Deanery Gardens, Sonning, Berkshire(1901); Marshcourt, near Stockbridge, Hampshire (1901); Abbotswood, Lower Swell, Gloucestershire (1901); The Hoo, Willingdon and Jevington, East Sussex (1901); Marshcourt, Marsh Court, Stockbridge, Hampshire (1901-05); Monkton House, West Dean, West Sussex (1902); Little Thakeham, near Pulborough, Sussex (1902-03); St Mary's Church, Pixham, Dorking, Surrey (1903); Papillon Hall, Lubenham, Leicestershire (1903); Restoration of Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland (1901-14; Country Life office building, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London (1904); St. John's Institute, Smith Square, Westminster, London (1904); Hestercombe Gardens, West Monkton, Somerset (1904-06); New Place, Shirrell Heath, Hampshire (1904-06); Nashdom, Taplow, Buckinghamshire (1905); Lambay Castle, Country Dublin, Ireland (1905-12); Heathcote, near Ilkley, Yorkshire (1906-08); Dorland House, 40 Kingsway, London (1906); Folly Farm, Sulhamstead, Berkshire (1906-12); Middlefield, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire (1908-09); Les Communes, Vereneville, Normandy, France (1909-30); St. Jude's Church and Free Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (1909-13); Vicarage, manse and houses in North Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (1910); Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria (1910-14); Anglo-Boer War memorial, Johannesburg, South Africa (1910-14); Johannesburg ART Gallery (1910-15); Castle Drogo, near Drewsteignton, Dartmoor, Devon (1910-30); House, 7, St. James Square, London (1911); Henrietta Barnett School, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (1911); House, 36 Smith Square, Westminster, London (1911); Theosophical Society (now headquarters of the British Medical Association, Tavistock Square, London (1911-25); British School at Rome, Rome, Italy (1912-18), Rashtrapathi Bhavan, Viceroy's House, Delhi (1912-29); Jaipur Column, Delhi, India (1912-30); House, 18 Little College Street, Westminster, London (1912); Viceroy's House and other buildings in New Delhi, India (1912-31); Town cemetery, Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France (1917-18); India Gate, British India Army War memorial, New Delhi, India (1917-31); Arch of Remembrance, Leicester (1919); The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London (1919-20); War memorial, Ashwell, Hertfordshire (1919-21); Penheale Manor, Egloskerry, Cornwall (1920); War memorial, Mells, Somerset (1920); War memorial, Miserden, Gloucestershire (1920); Cenotaph, Southampton, Hampshire (1920); War memorial, Abinger Common, Surrey (1920); Devon County War Memorial, Exeter, Devon (1921); War memorial, Fordham, Cambridgeshire (1921); War memorial, Harburn, Northumberland (1921); War memorial, Hove, Sussex (1921); Leeds Rifles War memorial. Leeds (1921); War memorial, Lower Swell, Gloucestershire (1921); Midland Railway War memorial, Derby (1921); Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph, Maidstone (1921); Royal Berkshire Regiment War memorial, Reading, Berkshire (1921); South African War memorial, Richmond, Surrey (1921); War memorial, Southend-on-Sea, Essex (1921); Baroda House, Delhi, India (1921-36); War memorial, King's Somborne, Hampshire (1922); Lancashire Fusiliers War memorial, Bury, Lancashire (1922); Cenotaph, Manchester (1922); War memorial, Rolvenden, Kent (1922); War memorial, Rochdale, Lancashire (1922); War memorial, Spalding, Lincolnshire (1922); War memorial, Stockbridge, Hampshire, (1922); War memorial, Wargrave, Berkshire (1922); War memorial Busbridge, Surrey (1922); War memorial, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire (1922); Holy Island War memorial, Lindisfarne, Northumberland (1922); War memorial, Muncaster, Cumbria (1922); Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War memorial, Oxford (1923); War memorial, Sandhurst, Kent (1923); Welch Regiment War memorial, Cardiff, Wales (1924); Civil Service Rifles War Memorial, London (1924); North Eastern Railway War memorial, York (1924); Midland Bank, Poultry, London (1924-29); Royal Naval Division War memorial, Whitehall, London (1925); War memorial, York (1925); War memorial, York (1925); British Ambassador's residence, Washington, DC (1925-28); War memorial, Northampton (1926); Hyderabad House, New Delhi, India (1926-28); War memorial, Norwich, Norfolk (1927); The Merchant Navy War memorial, Tower Hill (1928); Grosvenor Estate, Westminster, London (1928-30); War memorial, Thiepval, Picardy, France (1928-32); 100 King Street, Manchester (1928-35); Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge, County Dublin (1930-40); Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France (1935-38); Benson Court, Magdalene College, Cambridge (1932); Linden Lodge School, Wimbledon, London (1934); 58-59 South Street, Mayfair, London (1936).
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See also
Wikipedia - List of work by Lutyens
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Armstrong, Barrie and Armstrong, Wendy. The Arts and Crafts movement in the North East of England: a handbook. Wetherby, England: Oblong, 2013
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Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Edwin Lutyens. Compiled by Margaret Richardson. Farnborough, England: Gregg International, 1973
Dougill, Wesley. 'Liverpool's tweo cathedrals'. The Builder vol. 154, 14 January 1938 pp. 54-58 [Discusses Lutyens' plans for the Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, of which only the Crypt was built]
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Handley-Read, Lavinia. 'A Lutyens client in a golden age'. Country Life vol. 150, 30 September 1971 pp. 816-820 [The author discusses two commissions given by her father, Evelyn Stainton, to Lutyens - 11 Stanhope Place, London, (1902), and Barham Court, Kent (1914)]
Heal, Robert G. 'Edwin Lutyens: a centenary assessment'. The Builder vol. 216, 28 March 1969 pp. 73-74, 93-94
Hellyer, A. G. L. 'The seven gardens of Folly Farm'. Country Life vol. 130, 6 July 1961 pp. 6-8 [Discusses the collaboration in 1906 between Lutyens and Gertude Jekyll (1843-1932) in the design of the gardens at Folly Farm in Berkshire, for which Lutyens also designed a cottage]
Hill, Oliver. 'Edwin Landseer Lutyens. 1869-1944: the Memorial Volumes reviewed'. The Builder vol. 181, 26 October 1951 pp. 546-549 [The author, who worked for Lutyens for several years, reassesses his work in the light of the publication of The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 volumes (1950)]
Hill, Oliver. 'The genius of Edwin Luyyens'. Country Life vol. 145, 27 March 1969 pp. 710-712 [Oliver Hill (1887-1968) worked for Luyens from 1918 to 1939]
Howling, G. T. 'Liverpool Metropolitan Cathesdral: a comparison of e Scott and Lutyens designs'. The Builder vol. 188, 4 March 1955 pp. 366-368 [Discusses the revisions made by Adrian Gilbert Scott (1882-1963) to Lutyens original design for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral]
Howling, G. T. 'Lutyens: some reflectioons'. The Builder vol. 196, 13 February 1959 p.313 [Reflections on Lutyens by Basil Spence and others]
Hobhouse, Christopher. 'Mells Park, Somerset'. Architectural Review vol. 67, February 1930 pp. 73-78 [A report on the rebuilding in 1924 of Mells Park which was destroyed by fire in 1917]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire'. Country Life vol. 110, 27 July 1951 pp. 274-277 [Part one of a three part article on the extension made by Lutyens to Ashby St. Ledgers between 1920 and 1925]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire'. Country Life vol. 110, 10 August 1951 pp. 348-351[ Part two of a three part article on the extension made by Lutyens to Ashby St. Ledgers between 1920 and 1925]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire'. Country Life vol. 110, 17 July 1951 pp. 420-423 [Part three of a three part article on the extension made by Lutyens to Ashby St. Ledgers between 1920 and 1925]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Blogdon, Northumberland'. Country Life vol. 112, 18 July 1952 pp. 188-191 [Part one of a two-part article on the layout of a garden for Blogdon in Northumberland by Lutyens]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Blogdon, Northumberland'. Country Life vol. 112, 25 July 1952 pp. 260-263 [Part two of a two-part article on the layout of a garden for Blogdon in Northumberland by Lutyens]
Hussey, Christopher. 'The British Embassy, Washington'. Country Life vol. 85, 14 January 1939 pp. 38-42 [Part one of a two-part article on the new British Embassy in Washington, DC, designed by Lutyens and built in 1927-28]
Hussey, Christopher. 'The British Embassy, Washington'. Country Life vol. 85, 21 January 1939 pp. 64-68 [Part one of a two-part article on the new British Embassy in Washington, DC, designed by Lutyens and built in 1927-28]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Crooksbury, Surrey'. Country Life vol. 96, 6 October 1944 pp. 596-599 [Part one of a two-part articlr on Crooksbury in Surrey, designed by Lutyens in 1890 and later enlarged and rebuilt]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Crooksbury, Surrey'. Country Life vol. 96, 13 October 1944 pp. 640-643 [Part tw0 of a two-part articlr on Crooksbury in Surrey, designed by Lutyens in 1890 and later enlarged and rebuilt]
Hussey, Christopher. The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens. London: Country Life, 1950
Hussey, Christopher. 'Middleton Park, Oxfordshire' Country Life vol. 100, 4 July 1946 pp. 28-31 [Part one of a two-part article on Middleton House designed by Lutyens and built between 1934 and 1936]
Hussey, Christopher. 'Middleton Park, Oxfordshire'. Country Life vol. 100, 12 July 1946 pp. 74-77 [Part two of a two-part article on Middleton House designed by Lutyens and built between 1934 and 1936]
Hussey, Christopher. 'The Salutation, Sandwich, Kent'. Country Life vol. 132, 13 September 1962 pp. 564-567 [Part one of a two-part article on 'The Salutation', a country house in Sandwich, Kent designed in 1911 by Lutyens with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)]
Hussey, Christopher. 'The Salutation, Sandwich, Kent'. Country Life vol. 132, 13 September 1962 pp. 650-654 [Part two of a two-part article on 'The Salutation', a country house in Sandwich, Kent designed in 1911 by Lutyens with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)]
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