| 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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