Sir Aston Webb Sir Aston Webb, the distinguished architect who
has died at the age of eighty-one, has left his mark all over the country, and especially in London, in large buildings which reach a general standard of impressiveness. It cannot be said that he created a school of imitators, but he earned and deserved respect for his high aims and sincerity. Many of the largest new buildings in Central London and in the City arc his, and he will particularly be remembered by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Imperial College of Science and Technology in South Kensington —better in their interior than their exterior qualities— the new Mall with the Admiralty Arch, the refacing of Buckingham Palace and the Naval College at Dartmouth. Sir Aston received the unusual honour for an architect of being elected President of the Royal Academy, and the American Institute of Architects chose him as the first recipient of their gold medal. He was a passionate lover of London and a visionary about its future.
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