Wyatt, JAMES, architect, was born at Burton Constable, Staffordshire, in 1746, studied in Rome, and succeeded Sir W. Chambers in 1796 as surveyor to the Board of Works. He built the fantastic pile of Fonthill Abbey for Beckford, and was killed near Marlborough by a carriage accident, 4th Sept. 1813.
Wyatt, JAMES
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 758
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