Person
Tayler, Lloyd (1830 - 1900)
FRIBA
- Born
- 26 October 1830
London, England - Died
- 17 August 1900
Brighton, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Architect
Summary
Lloyd Tayler was arguably Victoria's best and most prolific architect during the mid to late 1800s. He designed numerous banks, churches, warehouses, offices, retail shops and private mansions in Victoria. He also won a national competition for the design of the South Australian House of Parliament. Tyler was an inaugural member and a three-time president of the Victorian Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Chronology
- 1851
- Life event - Migrated to Australia (Albury, New South Wales)
- 1854 - 1856
- Career position - Established an architectural practice with civil engineer Lewis Vieusseux (New South Wales?)
- 1856 -
- Career position - Inaugural member of the Victorian Institute of Architects
- 1856 -
- Career position - Private practice in Melbourne
- c. 1857
- Career position - Designed the Colonial Bank of Australia building in Melbourne
- c. 1860 - c. 1870
- Career position - Designed the National Bank of Australasia buildings in Melbourne, Richmond, North Fitzroy, Warrnambool and Coleraine
- 1865
- Career position - Designed St Phillip's Church in Collingwood and the Presbyterian Church in Punt Road, South Yarra
- 1872
- Career position - Designed the Kamesburgh mansion in Brighton, Victoria
- 1874
- Award - Selected with EW Wright to design the South Australian House of Parliament
- 1874
- Award - Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA)
- 1875
- Career position - Designed the Bank of Australia building in Adelaide
- 1878
- Career position - Designed the Australian Club in Melbourne
- 1880 - 1881
- Career position - Commissioner to the Melbourne International Exhibition
- 1883
- Career position - Founder of the St John's Ambulance Association in Victoria
- 1886 - 1887
- Career position - President of the Victorian Institute of Architects
- 1889 - 1890
- Career position - President of the Victorian Institute of Architects
- 1899 - 1900
- Career position - President of the Victorian Institute of Architects
Published resources
Book Sections
- Dunbar, Donald James; Tibbits, George, 'Tayler, Lloyd (1830-1900), Architect' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn, ed., vol. 6 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 244-245. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060260b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536327. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/1184150748993216420006. Details
- 'Tayler, Lloyd (18301026-19000817)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462990. Details
Annette Alafaci
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 7 February 2011
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