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George Vulliamy

Also known as: George Vulliamy; primary name: Vulliamy, George John
Details: individual; architect; scientist/engineer; British; Male
Life dates: 1817-1886
Address: 26 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall (in 1854)
Biography: Architect and civil engineer. Son of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780-1854), the last head of the firm of watch and clockmakers founded in London, c. 1730. G. J. Vulliamy worked for Joseph Bramah & Sons, engineers, and Sir Charles Barry, before commencing practice as an architect in 1843. Fellow and council memeber of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member, and for a time secretary, of the Royal Archaeological Institute;exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838 and 1845. On 2 April 1851 Vulliamy married Eliza King (née Umfreville); they had five children. Elected superintending architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works in March 1861, Vulliamy designed various buildings, several fire-brigade stations, and the pedestal and sphinxes for Cleopatra's needle on the Embankment. He resigned in 1886 due to ill health and died at his home, Ingress House, Greenhithe, on 12 November 1886; he was buried on 17 November at Stone, near Dartford.