of the Select Committee on the Bank Charter. He was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, a magistrate of Middlesex and Somerset and Deputy Lieutenant for London. He was also a Governor of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, where he is commemorated by the William Tite Scholarship, for the best student in the first year, with the highest aggregate marks in Anatomy and Physiology. After over 125 years, this prize has been subsumed into King's College London, where it is still awarded for excellence in the pre-clinical medical course. He died on 20 April 1873 at Torquay and was interred in the catacombs of his South Metropolitan Cemetery. Tite Street, which runs north-west from London's Chelsea Embankment, is named after him. Tite was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, largely responsible for the construction of Chelsea Embankment. Gallery of architectural work Notes References S. P. Parissien Tite, Sir William (1798–1873) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription needed) Attribution: External links 41 Lothbury, London & Westminster Bank building, now refurbished as serviced offices Friend of West Norwood Cemetery 1798 births 1873 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Fellows of the Royal Society 19th-century English architects Gothic Revival architects English landscape architects Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of the Bath Burials at West Norwood Cemetery UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal Presidents of the Royal Institute of British Architects People from the City of London Members of the Metropolitan Board of Works British railway architects Architects from London