Wyatt, SIR MATHEW DIGBY, architect, was born in 1820 at Rowde near Devizes. After studying at the Royal Academy, he made a diligent study of the architecture of Italy, France, and Germany, returning to England in 1846 to publish his Geometrical Mosaics of the Middle Ages (1848). As secretary to the Royal Commissioners he took an important part in the arrangements of the 1851
Exhibition. In 1856 he was appointed architect to the East India Company, in 1866 awarded the royal gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1869 knighted and chosen Slade professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge. He died 21st May 1877.
His chief books are Metal Work and its Artistic Design (1852), Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century (1853), Art Treasures of the United Kingdom (1857), Fine Art (1870), Architect's Handbook in Spain (1872).