PULLAN

Richard Popple well (son of Samuel Popple well Pullan, solicitor). b. Knaresborough, Yorkshire 27 March 1825; educ. Christ’s hospital; went to Sebastopol during the siege Oct. 1854, and made sketches and models of the district; exhibited in London a model of the country and fortifications about Sebastopol; appointed by the foreign office architect to the expedition sent to survey the mausoleum at Halicarna us, in Asia Minor in April 1857; employed by the Society of Dilettanti on further investigations of a like kind; competed for Truro and Lille cathedrals, the war and foreign offices, and natural history museum; designed churches at Pont res in a and Baveno; completed all the unfinished works of Wm. Burges 1881; author of The altar, its baldachin and reredos 1873; Eastern cities and Italian towns 1879; Elementary lectures on Christian architecture 1879; Studies in architectural style 1883; Studies in cathedral design 1888; author with sir C. T. Newton of A history of discoveries of Halicarna us, Cnidus, and Branchidæ 1862; with C. F. M. Texier of Byzantine architecture 1864; he edited The architectural designs of W. Burges 1883; The house of W. Burges 1886. d. Brighton 30 April 1888. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. , n.s. xii 391 (1888); Athenæum i 575 (1888).