Person Gibbs; James (1682 - 1754) Gibbs James 1682 - 1754 British Male His father's house of Footdeesmire, in the Links of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 23 December 1682 05 August 1754 Burial: The old church of Marylebone, London

Corner of Wimpole Street and Henrietta Place, Marylebone

Architect 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 Son of Peter or Patrick Gibbs, Merchant, of Fittsmyre, Aberdeen, and his second wife, Isabel Farquhar; unmarried Fellow 16/10/1729 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Colvin References: 'Gentleman's Magazine' 1754, p387 Notes: Proposed by William Jones, William Rutty, Sir Hans Sloane International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 23 Dec 1682 - 5 Aug 1754 NA8440 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 3848e759-c5a3-40d6-b1e0-53e92721d637