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746 WYATT WYCHERLY many years a fashionable rendezvous, and re- ceived commissions for private residences in all parts of the kingdom. He was one of the first to attempt the revival of Gothic architec- ture, and for many years he was unrivalled as the restorer of ancient English architecture. His most famous work in this style was Font- hill abbey, erected for Beckford. He was sur- veyor general subsequent to 1796, and in 1802- '3 was president of the royal academy. His nephew, Sir JEFFBEY WYATVILLK (born in Bur- ton-on-Trent, Aug. 3, 1766, died in Windsor, Feb. 18, 1840), designed and superintended the alterations in Windsor castle, commenced in 1824. His name was changed from Wyatt on his being knighted in 1828. WYATT, Sir Matthew Dlgby, an English archi- tect, born at Rowde, near Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1820. He studied at the royal academy and on the continent, and published " Specimens of the Geometrical Mosaics of the Middle Ages " (1848), and in connection with it a " Histori- cal Notice of the Art." In 1849 the society of arts commissioned him to report upon the exposition held that year in Paris; and in 1851 he superintended the erection of the crystal palace in London. He was next associated with Brunei in designing the Paddington station of the Great Western railway, and between 1852 and 1854 ho superintended the fine art department and decorations of the crystal pal- ace at Sydenham. He was appointed surveyor to the East India company in 1856, and exe- cuted many important designs for public works in Great Britain and India, including several great bridges. In 1869 he was knighted, and was appointed Slade professor of fine arts at Cambridge. His most important publications are : " The Industrial Arts of the XlXth Cen- tury " (2 vols., with 160 plates), written in connection with his labors at 1 the interna- tional exhibition of 1851; "Metal Work and its Artistic Designs" (fol., 1852); "Essay on Ivory Carving" (1856), published with pho- tographs in a small folio by the Arundel socie- ty ; " Art Treasures of the United Kingdom " (1857) ; " What Illuminating was," and " What Illuminating should be, and how it may be practised" (1861); "Fine Art" (1870); and "An Architect's Note Book in Spain" (1872). WYATT, Richard Janes, an English sculptor, born in London, May 3, 1795, died in Rome, May 29, 1850. He studied under Canova in Rome, where he resided after 1821. His most noticeable productions are his " Nymph enter- ing the Bath " and " Nymph leaving the Bath," " Shepherdess with a Kid," " Musi- dora," " Penelope," and the groups " Eucharis and Cupid," " Ino and Bacchus," and " Huntress with a Leveret and Greyhound." He also executed excellent portrait busts and rilievi. At the great exhibition of 1851 the medal for sculpture was awarded him posthumously. WYATT. I. Sir Thomus an English poet, born at Allington castle, Kent, in 1503, died at Sherborne, Oct. 11, 1542. He graduated at Cambridge in 1518, became a gentleman of the bedchamber to Henry VIII. in 15i5, 6fficiaied as ewerer at Anne Boleyn's marriage in 1583, was knighted March 18, 1536, and became high sheriff of Kent in 1537. He was sent to Spain as ambassador to Charles V. in April, 1537, and was again employed at the court of that emperor, now in the Low Countries, from No- vember, 1539, till May, 1540, after which he lived mostly in retirement in England. His poems have usually been published with those of the earl of Surrey. (See SURREY.) II. Sir Thomas, commonly called the younger, an Eng- lish soldier, son of the preceding, born in Kent about 1520, beheaded on Tower hill, April 11, 1554. From 1545 to 1550 he commanded at Boulogne, and in 1554 led the Kentish insur- gents in the duke of Suffolk's conspiracy on oc- casion of the proposed marriage of Queen Mary with Philip II., entered London at the head of his followers, and after a fight in the streets was captured, Feb. 7. This foolhardy movement, commonly called Wyatt's rebellion, caused the immediate execution of Lady Jane Grey. WYCH HAZEL. See WITCH HAZEL. WYCHERLY, William, an English dramatist, born at Clive, near Shrewsbury, about 1640, died in London about the end of December, 1715. Ho was sent to France for his educa- tion, and frequented the residence of the duke de Montausier, governor of Angouleme, where he was converted to the Roman Catholic faith. He afterward studied at Oxford and was re- converted ; but Pope, whom in his old age he employed to correct his verses, says he died a Catholic. In 1672 he produced with great success his first play, " Love in a Wood, or St. James's Park," composed according to his own account when he was but 19 years of age. The duchess of Cleveland, the king's mistress, introduced him at court. The duke of Buckingham took him into his service, the king subsidized him liberally, and he became one of the most noted wits and gal- lants of the time. During this period he pro- duced his three remaining plays, "The Gen- tleman Dancing-Master," " The Country Wife," and " The Plain Dealer," all of which were received with great favor, but are too licen- tious for modern representation. About 1680 Wycherly married the dowager countess of Drogheda, who soon died, leaving him her whole fortune; but the settlement was con- tested, and a long litigation left him bankrupt and in prison. James II. released him and settled upon him a pension of 200. The death of his father at length left to him the family estates. In 1704 he published a folio volume of " Miscellany Poems," remarkable chiefly for bad rhymes and worse morality. Eleven days before his death he married again, chiefly to annoy and burden his heir-at-law, a nephew whom he hated. A volume of his works, comprising poems and " moral reflec- tions," was published in 1728. The latest edition of his plays is in a volume with the