Authorised form of name | Gibbs; James (1682 - 1754) |
Dates | 1682 - 1754 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | His father's house of Footdeesmire, in the Links of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
Date of birth | 23 December 1682 |
Date of death | 05 August 1754 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: The old church of Marylebone, London |
Occupation | Architect |
Activity | Education: Aberdeen Grammar School; Marischal College, Aberdeen (matriculated between 1696 and 1700); Scots College, Rome; Oxford. MA (1749) Career: Travelled to Holland to stay with relatives and then to Rome, where he studied initially for the priesthood, but abandoned this course and studied architecture under Carlo Fontana, surveyor-general to Pope Clement XI; practised as an architect in London (1709-death); Surveyor to the Commissioners for Building Fifty New Churches in London (1713-1715), when he was dismissed as a suspected Jacobite; worked on the development of the Harley estate in Marylebone, under the patronage of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (FRS 1727); Architect of the Ordnance (1727-death); his buildings include the Radcliffe Library, Oxford, and (despite the fact that he was a Roman Catholic) St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, and St Mary-le-Strand, London among other churches; bequeathed his books, prints and drawings to the Radcliffe Library
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 16/10/1729 |
Relationships | Son of Peter or Patrick Gibbs, Merchant, of Fittsmyre, Aberdeen, and his second wife, Isabel Farquhar; unmarried |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Colvin References: 'Gentleman's Magazine' 1754, p387 Notes: Proposed by William Jones, William Rutty, Sir Hans Sloane |
Code | NA8440 |
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