George edmund street biography of abraham

&#;STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (–), architect, born at Woodford, Essex, on 20 June , was the third son of Thomas Street, solicitor, by his second wife, Mary Anne Millington.

The father, Thomas Street, whose business was in Philpot Lane, was the descendant of a Worcestershire family to which belonged also the judge, Sir Thomas Street [q.

George edmund street biography of abraham

v.] About , when his father moved to Camberwell, George was sent to a school at Mitcham, and subsequently to the Camberwell collegiate school, which he left in In Street was placed in the office in Philpot Lane, but the employment was uncongenial, and his father's death, after a few months, released him from it.

For a short period he lived with his mother and sister at Exeter, where probably he first turned his thoughts to architecture, led by the example of his elder brother Thomas, an ardent sketcher. Street improved his drawing by taking lessons in perspective from Thomas Haseler, a painter,