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Robert Lewis Roumieu (1814 – 1877) otherwise R.L. Roumieu, was a 19th-century English architect whose designs include Milner Square in Islington and an idiosyncratic vinegar warehouse at 33–35 Eastcheap in the City of London. A pupil of Benjamin Dean Wyatt, he worked in partnership with Alexander Dick Gough between 1836 and 1848. ==Life and career== Roumieu was of Huguenot descent and his middle name is occasionally spelled "Louis". The Roumieu family originated from Languedoc, and the name has been listed among those of Huguenot refugees who settled in Great Britain and Ireland during the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1714). Roumieu's father John was a solicitor,〔 while his grandfather Abraham Roumieu (1734–1780)〔 had been an architect. Roumieu was articled to the architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt in 1831. In 1836 he went into partnership with another pupil of Wyatt, Alexander Dick Gough. 〔 〕Together they completed some notable projects in what are now the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, including Milner Square and the Islington Literary and Philosophical Institute (now the Almeida Theatre), a stuccoed classical work of 1837. The partnership was dissolved in 1848.〔 On 15 December 1845 Roumieu was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA), having been proposed by HL Keys, EM Foxhall, and HE Kendall.〔 All three of Roumieu's proposers had become Fellows of the Institute a year after its foundation, in 1835. Henry Lant Keys was born in 1800 or 1801. Edward Martin Foxhall (1733–1862), was a District Surveyor of St George's Hanover Square and had been articled to Sir John Soane. The identity of Henry Edward Kendall is problematic, for there are two identically named, father and son. H E Kendall (1776–1875) was from 1823, District Surveyor for St Martin in the Fields. His son, Henry Edward Kendall Jr. (1805–55) received his FRIBA in 1842. It seems likely that the Kendall who proposed Roumieu was Kendall Sr. As a possible former pupil of John Nash he may have carried some weight, and he had also proposed Foxhall as a Fellow.〕 For 22 years Roumieu's address was 10 Lancaster Place, Strand, London (1845–77).〔 Prior to that he was at 8 Regent's Square, St Pancras, London (1845) and after that period at 7 St George's Terrace, Regent's Park, London, until his death in 1877.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Lewis Roumieu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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