George Edmund Street (1824-1881) 

He was articled to the architect Owen Carter in Winchester then went on to work for the London based practice of George Gilbert Scott. In 1856 he moved his own successful Oxford based practice to London.  

Despite mainly restoring and designing churches, in 1868 he won the commission to designed and build the new Law Courts on the Strand, London, this was to remain unfinished on his death, later finished by A. W. Blomfield. 

In 1866 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy and a fellow in 1871, when he died he was professor of architecture to the Royal Academy. He was also the president of RIBA, a member of the Royal Academy of Vienna and in 1878 was awarded for drawing at the Paris Exhibition. He is buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. 

 

Photograph of the Royal Courts of Justice, http://www.victorianweb.org/

Street is regarded as the most important Gothic revival architect to the Arts and Crafts Movement as among his pupils were; William Morris, Philip Webb, J. D. Sedding (who in turn trained Ernest Barnsley, Ernest Gimson, Henry Wilson, Alfred Powell and W.R. Butler), and Richard N. Shaw (who in turn trained Sidney Barnsley, William Lethaby, Robert Weir Schultz, Edward Prior and Mervyn Macartney). 

Simon Jervis, High Victorian Design, 1974
Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth Century Design, 1993
John Andrews, Arts and Crafts Furniture, 2005