Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY, HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY, HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
Date: 1861
Nature: W.H. Lynn winner of competition (but design not executed?). Design awarded Gold Medal at Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Refs: Competition-winning perspective view and pencil study for same in Ulster Museum, nos. 4732,4857; photographs of original plan and photograph of perspective in RIBA drawings collection, see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 52; letters to WHL from Dept. of Public Works, New South Wales, 1862-3, in British Architectural Library Manuscripts Collection, AC/LYN/1-20; B 20, 25 Jan,1 Feb 1862, 66,86; 27, 14 Aug 1869, 646-647(illus.) IB 11, 15 Aug 1869, 198; 18, 15 Jun 1876, 171; 52, 29 Oct 1910, 662; RHA 1869, no. 242