SAMUEL WYATT, third son of Benjamin of Blackbrook, and elder brother of the preceding, was engaged extensively as an architect and builder, occupations which, at that time, frequently went together. He is said to have designed Hooton Hall, Cheshire; Tatton Park, for the Egerton family; Doddington Hall, for Sir T. Broughton; and Kedleston, for Lord Scarsdale. The editors of the Vitruvius Britannicus attribute this last building to Adam. As the house, however, was but partly finished at the time they wrote, it is probable that the original plan was by Adam, and that the completion was by Wyatt. He also built the Trinity House on Tower Hill. He was a man of great ability, and was engaged on an immense number of important works. His nephew, afterwards Sir Jeffrey Wyattville (see below), was his pupil and assistant. He was buried at Chelsea College, on the 16th February 1807.
SAMUEL WYATT
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