Ipswich-based architect, born in Manchester and a pupil of Alfred Waterhouse, 1863–1871, before settling in Ipswich. He was a successful competitor for public buildings, designing the Corn Exchange in Ipswich (1882), with its spandrel reliefs of Ceres and Pomona, and Gurney’s Bank in Felixstowe (1895), with its sea monster decorations. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Bibliography: Architects of Greater Manchester 1800–1940: ‘Brightwen Binyon’; J. Bettley and N. Pevsner, Suffolk: East (The Buildings of England), New Haven and London, 2015, passim; H. Birkin (ed.), Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800–1914. A Working Document Compiled from a Variety of Sources, Ipswich, 1991; R. Cocke, Public Sculpture of Norfolk and Suffolk, Liverpool, 2013, pp. 160–61; Suffolk Artists: ‘Binyon, Brightwen’.
Richard Cocke, 2013; revised, Terry Cavanagh, April 2025