Robert Lewis Roumieu

Who was Robert Lewis Roumieu?

Robert Lewis Roumieu, otherwise R.L. Roumieu, was a Victorian architect best known for 33-35 Eastcheap, London EC3.

Born in 1814, Roumieu was of Huguenot descent and his middle name is occasionally spelled "Louis". His forebears were "an illustrious Huguenot family - the Roumieus of Languedoc." The name "Roumieu" has been listed among those Huguenot refugees who settled in Great Britain and Ireland during the reign of Louis XIV.

With his partner Alexander Dick Gough, Roumieu completed some notable projects in what are now the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, including Milner Square in Islington, and the Islington Literary and Philosophical Institute, a stuccoed classical work of in 1837.