1-273-634 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

George Edmund Street, architect, 1878. After serving as an apprentice to GG Scott, Street set up his own practice in 1848. He favoured the Gothic style, and designed numerous churches, as well as working on restoration projects at cathedrals including Bristol, York Minster and Christ Church, Dublin. His most famous work is probably the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, London. As well as being a practising architect, Street was also an influential teacher, and became Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1879. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).