BAYNE, Richard Roskell (1836-1901) arrived in Victoria, B.C. in July 1890 after a successful career in India as an architect and district engineer. Born in Stoneleigh, Co. Warwickshire, England on 7 July 1836 he graduated as Queen's Prizeman from the School of Science and Art at South Kensington, London, England in 1860, and received the Soane Medallion for his architectural drawings in 1864. Trained under his father R.T. Bayne, he served a brief apprenticeship with Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) and with Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-77), and was elected Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1866. Shortly after, he left for India to serve as resident architect to the East India Company, and was said to have '.....carried out all their buildings' including the East India Railway Headquarters in Calcutta (1881). His designs included the Public Market Buildings in Madras and Calcutta, the European Hospital in Bombay, and the Mayo Memorial Hall in Allahabad (Builder [London] xxxv, 10 Feb 1877, 133-36, illus.).
Bayne began his practice in Victoria, B.C. in May 1891 and submitted two entries in the competition for the Legislative Buildings at Victoria in September 1892 (M. Segger, The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, 1979, 83), but few other references to his work there have been found. He resigned from the R.I.B.A. in 1900 and died in New Westminster on 4 December 1901 (biography in Williams Illustrated British Columbia Directory, 1892, 1151; R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, 2001, i, 139; BCPA, Wills No. 412 and Probate No. 2423, 14 Dec. 1901; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003,453, 491)
(works in Victoria, B.C.)
BATTERY STREET, residence for an unnamed client, 1891 (Daily British Colonist [Victoria], 2 April 1891, 1, t.c.)
QUADRA STREET, at Chatham Street, residences for an unnamed client, 1891 (Daily British Colonist [Victoria], 9 May 1891, 5; and 1 Jan. 1892, 8)
OAK BAY, residence for Richard R. Bayne, architect, 1892 (Victoria Daily Times, 22 April 1892, 5; Daily British Colonist [Victoria], 23 April 1892, 5)