MOULD

Jacob Wrey . b. Chisel hurst, Kent 1825; ed. at King’s college, London 1842; spent two years in Spain with Owen Jones, architect, studying the Alhambra; designed with him Moresque-Turkish divan of Bucking ham palace and the decorations of the great exhibition of 1851; designed and built All Soul’s church, New York 1853; a istant architect of public works New York 1857, chief architect 1870; went to Lima, Peru 1874, but returned after a few years; translated the libretti of La Sonnambula 1840, the Barber of Seville 1856, Hernani 1857, Lucrezia Borgia 1861, and La Sonnambula 1865; illustrated vol. 2 of Owen Jones’s Alhambra 1848, and a isted him in his Grammar of Ornament 1856; illustrated editions of Gray’s Elegy in a country churchyard 1846, and The book of common prayer 1849. d. New York 14 June 1886.