Who was Edward Welby Pugin ?
Edward Welby Pugin (1834-1887)
A.W.N. Pugin's first son became an architect principally of churches, he helped to complete St Augustine's aged 18 yrs after his fathers death.
He was responsible for the conversion of the Granville (Ramsgate Kent) to become one of Europe's most prestigious hotels. For which he designed furniture that was made by C & R Light of Shoreditch, London.
Plate from C & R Light: Cabinet, Designs and Catalogue of Cabinet and Upholstered Furniture, 1881.
In 1861 he was commissioned to alter his father's previous commission Scarisbrick Hall. He spent a great deal of time in legal battles over his father contribution to the House of Parliament verses Charles Barry's. He died aged 41 yrs bankrupt and Exhausted.
Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth Century Design, 1993
Paul Atterbury & Clive Wainwright, Pugin a Gothic Passion, 1994