Francis Greenway : his life and times / by M.H. Ellis.

Main entry:

Ellis, M. H. (Malcolm Henry), 1890-1969.

Title & Author:

Francis Greenway : his life and times / by M.H. Ellis.

Edition:

2d ed., rev.

Publication:

Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1953.

Description:

xxv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), color portrait, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-20. "Reference notes": pages [205]-223)
Foreword / Morton Herman -- Appendix I : Greenway's works -- Appendix II : Greenway's claims for work done during Brisbane's administration -- Appendix III : Greenway's estimate for government stables -- Appendix IV : Number of buildings in Sydney in 1821.

Summary:

Francis Greenway, brilliant architect and condemned felon, is one of the strangest figures in Australian history. Here is the full story of the man who escaped the gallows to become the first architect in a new continent and to bequeath to his unwillingly adopted country buildings whose beauty has remained unsurpassed. The serene clarity of Greenway's work is in striking contrast to his turbulent career. An architect of standing in the west of England, but sentenced to death for forgery in 1812, he endured the misery of the hulks and the longdrawn horror of the voyage to New South Wales, and emerged to become Civil Architect of the colony and to dine at the Governor's table. In the five years he held office Greenway's powers reached their full flowering. He planned and supervised the erection of many buildings in Sydney and its surrounding districts, including St James's Church, the Hyde Park Convict Barrack, the Macquarie Lighthouse, Fort Macquarie, the Government House stables (now the Conservatorium of Music), St Matthew's Church of Windsor, and St Luke's at Liverpool. M.H. Ellis has combined fine scholarship with vitality and humour in the telling of this story. He has brought to life the highly coloured world of early Australia, and in the midst of it the vain, quarrelsome little convict architect whose great talents and artistic integrity have left an enduring monument.

ISBN:

0207126828
9780207126826

Subject:

Greenway, Francis Howard, 1777-1837.
Architects England Biography.
Architects Australia Biography.
Architecture Australia History.
Architectes Angleterre Biographies.
Architectes Australie Biographies.
Architecture Australie Histoire.
Architects
Architecture
Australia History 1788-1851.
Australie Histoire 1788-1851.
Australia
England

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74228
Call No.: W7802; ID:86-B12722
Status: Available

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