Benjamin Bucknall

His most noted works include the uncompleted Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire, England[2] and his restoration of the Villa Montfeld in El Biar, Algiers.

[2] Bucknall admired the work of the French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and travelled to visit him in France in 1861[2] and in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1872.

[3] Some of their children visited Bucknall in Algiers, and Edgar died there in a boating accident in 1889.

[3] His works include a restoration of the Villa Montfeld, now the residence of the US Ambassador to Algeria.

[3] A road in Algiers was named Chemin Bucknall in his honour, but since independence it has been renamed.