Matthew Wyatt (government Official)
Matthew Wyatt may refer to: * Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820–1877), British architect and art historian * Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777–1862), painter and sculptor * Matt Wyatt Matthew Wyatt (born March 4, 1978) is an American former rugby union international. Biography Wyatt, raised outside Philadelphia, was born in Southampton, Pennsylvania and attended William Tennent High School, playing high school football as a de ...

Matthew Digby Wyatt
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (28 July 1820 – 21 May 1877) was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. From 1855 until 1859 he was honorary secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1866 received the Royal Gold Medal. Life Born in Rowde, Wiltshire, Wyatt trained as an architect in the office of his elder brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt. He assisted Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the terminus of the Great Western Railway at London Paddington (1854). He also enlarged and rebuilt Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (1866: now the Judge Institute of Management). He designed the Rothschild Mausoleum in the Jewish Cemetery at West Ham. In 1851, Wyatt produced the book ''The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century'', an imposing imperial folio in two volumes which illustrates a selection of items from the Great Exhibi ...
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Matthew Cotes Wyatt
Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777 – 3 January 1862) was an English painter and sculptor and a member of the Wyatt family, who were well known in the Victorian era as architects and sculptors. Early life Wyatt was born in London, the son of the architect James Wyatt and was the brother of Benjamin Dean Wyatt, the architect. Matthew was educated at Eton College and joined the Royal Academy Schools in 1800. On 29 December 1801 he married Maria McClellan (d. 1852), the widow of Edward McClellan, a sea captain. They had fours sons, Matthew, James, George, and Henry Wyatt. Through the influences of his father, in 1805 at the age of 28, he was employed by George III on several works at Windsor Castle, restoring and extending Antonio Verrio's ceilings in the remodelled state rooms.Obituary in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' 1862 p. 372. From 1800 to 1814 Wyatt exhibited portraits and historical subjects in oils at the Royal Academy. He was proposed for associate membership of the Academy in 1812, ...
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