Busby, Charles Augustin
Busby, Charles Augustin (1786–1834). English architect who published A Series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses (1808) and A Collection of Designs for Modern Embellishments (1810). He designed several villas before building the Commercial Rooms, Bristol (1810), with a Classical temple-front and an interior lit by means of a lantern supported by caryatides. In 1817 he went to the USA, and designed a theatre in Virginia. He returned to England, where he worked for a time with Francis Goodwin, later settling in Brighton, where he formed a partnership with Amon Henry Wilds. The firm laid out the Kemp Town and Brunswick Estates there, Busby providing the designs and Wilds acting as contractor. His best work is Sussex Square, Lewes Crescent, Arundel Terrace, and Chichester Terrace (1823–c.1850), Kemp Town, and Brunswick Square, Brunswick Terrace, Brunswick Street East and West, Lower Brunswick Place, and Landsdowne Place, and Lansdowne Square, Hove (1823–c.1834).
Bibliography
N. Bingham (1991);
Busby (1810, 1835);
Colvin (1995);
Dale (1947)
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