Edward Buckton Lamb

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Edward Buckton Lamb (1806–1869) was a British architect who began showing his work at the Royal Academy in 1824. He was nicknamed a "Rogue Gothic Revivalist" because his designs often broke with convention, and he faced strong criticism from The Ecclesiologist. Later, the critic Nikolaus Pevsner called him "the most original" architect of his day, though not the most accomplished.

Lamb was born in London. His father, James Lamb, worked as a government official. He trained as an architect under Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. One of his notable assignments was designing the chapel for Brompton Hospital; he was later asked to finish the hospital’s main building in collaboration with Frederick John Francis.

He also contributed to architectural writing: he wrote for Loudon’s Encyclopaedia (1833), published studies on Gothic Ornament (1830) and Ancient Domestic Architecture (1846) with text by William Henry Leeds, and was a regular contributor to the Architectural Magazine (1834–38).

Edward Buckton Lamb died in the summer of 1869 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.