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Benjamin Mountfort

1825 - 1898

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Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (13 March 1825 – 15 March 1898) was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where he became one of the country's most prominent 19th-century architects. He was instrumental in shaping the city of Christchurch's unique architectural identity and culture, and was appointed the first official Provincial Architect of the developing province of Canterbury. Heavily influenced by the Anglo-Catholic philosophy behind early Victorian architecture, he is credited with importing the Gothic revival style to New Zealand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Mountfort has received more than 76,798 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Mountfort is the 441st most popular architect (down from 406th in 2019), the 4,331st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,188th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Benjamin Mountfort ranks 441 out of 424Before him are Otto Bartning, Ivan Fomin, Ryue Nishizawa, Richard Knill Freeman, Alexander Kokorinov, and Joseph Pickford. After him are James Wyatt, William Burges, Calvert Vaux, Wojciech Zabłocki, Robert A. M. Stern, and Robert Smirke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Benjamin Mountfort ranks 72Before him are William McGonagall, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, George Inness, John Lawrence LeConte, A. P. Hill, and R. M. Ballantyne. After him are Albrecht Weber, Francisco Antonino Vidal, Adelaide Anne Procter, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, and Francis James Child. Among people deceased in 1898, Benjamin Mountfort ranks 76Before him are Yakov Polonsky, Don Carlos Buell, Osbert Salvin, Luiza Pesjak, William Rosecrans, and Wilford Woodruff. After him are Georg Bühler, Samuel Plimsoll, Frances Willard, Thomas F. Bayard, George Grey, and Blanche Bruce.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Mountfort ranks 4,331 out of 7,765Before him are Keir Hardie (1856), Bill Nicholson (1919), Æthelberht II of East Anglia (800), Arnold Jackson (1891), Joseph Pickford (1736), and Naseem Hamed (1974). After him are Duffy (1984), Frederick Grace (1884), Gerald Scarfe (1936), Ian McLagan (1945), Benjamin Wilson (1721), and Martin Litchfield West (1937).

Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Mountfort ranks 36Before him are Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), James Gibbs (1682), Richard Knill Freeman (1840), and Joseph Pickford (1736). After him are James Wyatt (1746), William Burges (1827), Calvert Vaux (1824), Robert Smirke (1780), George Gilbert Scott (1811), and Giles Gilbert Scott (1880).