1. William Tite was particularly associated with various London buildings, with railway stations and cemetery projects.
16 Facts About William Tite
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William Tite was the Member of Parliament for Bath from 1855 until his death.
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William Tite was articled to David Laing, architect of the new Custom House, and surveyor to the Parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East.
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William Tite assisted Laing in the rebuilding of St Dunstan's church: according to an article published in the Architect in 1869, William Tite entirely designed the new building, Laing himself having no knowledge of Gothic architecture.
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William Tite's winning design has an imposing eight-column entrance portico, inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, while the other sides of the building are based on Italian renaissance models.
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William Tite was the architect for the Eastern Counties, London and Blackwall, Gravesend and South Western Railways, and in France those between Paris and Rouen and Rouen and Le Havre; an article in the Architect named the station at Rouen, spanning nearly ninety feet, as an example of his structural skill.
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William Tite designed many of the early railway stations in Britain, including:.
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William Tite keenly opposed Sir George Gilbert Scott's proposal to build the new Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other government buildings adjacent to the Treasury in Whitehall in the Gothic style.
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William Tite was knighted in 1869 and was made a Companion of the Bath the next year.
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William Tite had a wide knowledge of English literature and was a good linguist and a lover of old books.
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William Tite was an elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1835, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1839.
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William Tite was President of the Camden Society and of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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William Tite was a director of the London and Westminster Bank and Governor of the Bank of Egypt; in 1856 he was nominated a member of the Select Committee on the Bank Charter.
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William Tite was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, a magistrate of Middlesex and Somerset and Deputy Lieutenant for London.
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William Tite was a Governor of St Thomas's Hospital, London, where he is commemorated by the William Tite Scholarship, for the best student in the first year, with the highest aggregate marks in Anatomy and Physiology.
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William Tite died on 20 April 1873 at Torquay and was interred in the catacombs of his South Metropolitan Cemetery.