Edward Alexander Wyon

Edward Alexander Wyon (1842; London – 1872; Hastings) was a London architect and poet, descended from the Wyon family of engravers. His only known building is St John the Evangelist Church in Hollington, Hastings in East Sussex. His posthumous publication, A Memorial Volume of Poems (1874), continues to be reprinted in the 21st century. He died in Hastings prior to his thirtieth birthday. Biography Ancestry His father was Edward William Wyon (1811–1885), a sculptor born in Christchurch, Surrey, who belonged to the Wyon family of engravers and medallists. Edward Alexander's grandfather was Thomas Wyon the elder (1792–1817), and his uncles were Thomas Wyon the younger, and Benjamin Wyon (1802–1858). Edward Alexander's mother was Elizabeth Smyth, (born St James's 1820; died Barnet 1890). His parents were married in 1841, at Marylebone, London. Edward Alexander and his siblings Edward Alexander Wyon was his parents' eldest son, born in Bloomsbury or St Pancras in the last quarter of 1842. In 1851 he was eight years old and a scholar, living at 36 Stanhope Street, St Pancras, with his father, mother, sister Florence Elizabeth Riddel (born St Pancras 1850), his brother Charles William John (1845–1856) and general servant Mary Anderson. In 1861 he, his parents, his sisters Florence and Jessie Mary Ann (born St Pancras 1855) and a servant Susannah Tayler were at 221 Euston Road, St Pancras. At age eighteen he was already calling himself an architect. In 1871 he was living with his mother at 70 Mornington Road, St Pancras, his two sisters and general servant Eliza Green; his father lived next door. He died in Hastings in the first quarter of 1872, aged 29 years. He never married.