3-071-250 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. Decimus Burton, F.R.S., architect, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co. 'The death of this veteran architect, who was eighty-one years of age, was announced in our last week's Obituary. He was a son of Mr. James Burton, in whose office, and under Mr. G. Maddox, he received his professional education. His chief works, to mention them in order of time, were: Holwood House, Kent; the Colosseum, Regent's Park; the Zoological Society's Gardens [ie London Zoo]; Hyde Park improvements and entrances [including the Hyde Park Screen]; the Royal entrance on Constitution Hill; the mansions of Lord de Clifford and Lord Stuart de Rothesay; the Athenaeum Club-house, Pall-mall; Holford House, Regent's Park; Charing-cross Hospital; the Rectory House, Sevenoaks; the Marquis of Hertford's Villa, Regent's Park; Broom Hill and Burrswood; Club-chambers, Regent-street; Grimston Park Mansion, Yorkshire; Phoenix Park improvements, Dublin; and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The name of Mr. Decimus Burton was mentioned with high respect, together with that of Mr. G. E. Street, who died in the same week, at the last meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.