George Edmund Street architect After serving as an apprentice to GG Scott Street set up his own practice in He favoured the Gothic style and designed numerous churches as well as working on restoration projects at cathedrals including Bristol York Minster and Christ Church Dublin His most famous work is probably the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand London As well as being a practising architect Street was also an influential teacher and became Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in From Men of Mark a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate the Church in science literature and art the army navy law medicine etc Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper Conducted by G C Whitfield London