SIR EDWIN LANDSEER LUTYENS FREE

Park Lane and Britannic House, Finsbury Circus.

In the 1920s and 19305 Lutyeus’ ofﬁce received a whole range of commissions from the Queen Mary's dolls house of 1923 to the head ofﬁce for the Midland Bank, Poultry Hampton Court bridge the British Embassy, Washington Grosvenor House. In 1917 he became one of the ofﬁcial architects to the Imperial War Graves Commission, in which capacity he designed some 90 war memorials, including the cemetery at Etaples and the monumental arch at Thiepval. In January 1912 Lutyens was appointed to advise the Delhi Planning Commission on the development of the new capital and designed the Viceroy's house, Viceroy's Court and the official bungalows.

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER LUTYENS FREE

Here he built St Jude on the Hill and the Free Church, as well as the houses and civic buildings in the central area. In the winter of 1908-1909, he was appointed architect for Hamp- stead Garden Suburb, with Raymond Un- win as town planner. His ﬁrst London building came with the Country Life offices of 1904, although he failed to win the competitions for the Queen Victoria Memorial and the LCC County Hall. Following the tum of the century Lutyens‘ work became more varied. About this time he ﬁrst met garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, for whom he built Munstead Wood in 1896 and by 1902-he had established himself as one of the country's most talented country house architects with Orchards, Munstead Deanery Garden. In 1889 the commission for Crooksbury House, near Farnham gave him the opportunity to set up practice on his own account. Died : 1 January 1944 (aged 74) at Marylebone, LondonĪ practising architect for 50 years, Lutyens entered the ofﬁce of domestic architects Ernest George and Peto in 1887.

Married : 4 August 1897 Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

Born : 29 March 1869 at Kensington, London.

Sir edwin landseer lutyens