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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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omit every superfluous line : lie has attained this object, without sacrificing 

 brevity. To those who merely wish to sketch Irom nature in correct per- 

 spective, without attaining the geometrical precision of the architectural 

 draughtsman, this little Manual will be an excellent guide. 



The Literary and Scientific Hegister and Almanack for 1847. By J. W. 

 G. GuTOn. This annual is replete with highly useful scientific information. 



SIR JOHN SOANE. 



For the following memoir we are indebted to the labours of Mr. George 

 Bailey, the able Curator of the Soanean Museum ; it was published some time 

 since as an Appendix to a Memoir of Sir John Soane, by Mr. Donaldson, and 

 has now received some trifling corrections to render it more perfect. 



1753. September 10, born near Reading. 



1768. Entered the oflice of Mr. George Dance. 



1772. Exhibited his first drawing at the fourth exhibition of the Royal 

 Academy, " Front of a nobleman's town-house." 



1772.' Obtained the silver medal at the R. A. for the best drawing of 

 the front of the Banqueting House at Whitehall. 



1774. An unsuccessful competitor for the gold medal at the R. A. 



1775. Gained the gold medal for the best design for a triumphal bridge. 



1777. Left London for Italy. 



1778. His first publication, entitled, "'Designs in Architecture," ap- 

 peared. 



1780. Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts at Parma, and re- 

 turned to London from Italy in June. 



1784. Designed and executed extensive alterations and additions to Mul- 

 grave Hall, near Whitbv, Yorkshire, for the Earl of Mulgrave— and to Uysion 

 Hall; designed a house for the Rev. G. Gooch, Norfolk ; Tendering Hall, 

 Suffolk, for Admiral Sir Josliua Rowley. 



1785-8. Designed a house at Shottisham, near Norwich, for Robert 

 Fellowes, Esq. ; Letton Hall, for B. G. Dillingham, Esq. 



1788, October 16. Appointed architect and surveyor to the Bank of 

 England. 



1788-1'94. Designed alterations and additions to Norwich Castle. 



1789-90. Rebuilt Bl-.ckfriars Bridge, at Norwich; designed and executed 

 extensive additions to Chillington, the seat of Mr. Gitfnrd ; desiuued a house 

 for the Rev. Charles Collyer, Gunthorpe ; designed extensive alterations a»d 

 additions to Bentley Priorv, near Stanmore. for the Marquis of Abercorn. 



1790-4. Buckingham House, in Pall Mall, for the Marquis^ of Buck- 

 ingham, and a town mansion for the Duke of Leeds, in St. Janies's-square. 



1790-9. Designed alterations and additions to Moggerhanger House, 

 Bedfordshire, the seat of Godfrey Thornton, Esq. 



1791. Designed extensive alterations and additions to Skelton Castle, for 

 John Wharton, Esq. 



1791. Appointed Clerk of the Works to St. James's Palace, the two 

 Houses of Parliament, and other public buildings in Westminster. 



1791-2. Designed and executed alterations and additions to Barons 

 Court, in Ireland, a seat of the Marquis of Abercorn. 



1791-3. Designed and executed alterations and additions to Wimpole, 

 the seat of the Earl of Hardwicke. 



1792. Designed and built his own house, No. 12. Lincoln's-inn-fields. 



1792. Designed and executed alterations and additions to Sulby Lodge, 

 Northamptonshire, the seat of Rene Payne, Esq. 



1793. PubUshed a work, entitled, " Sketches in Architecture." 

 1793-6. Designed and executed Tyringham Hall, near Newport Pagnel, 



for Wm. Praed, Esq. 



1794-1802. Designed and executed a house at Reading, for W. B. Sim- 

 monds, Esq. 



1 794. Designed and executed the entrance gates and lodge in Hyde-park, 

 opposite Great Cumberland-street (since taken down) ; a house for the Hon. 

 Mrs Yorke, near Southampton. 



1795. Became a member of the Society of Antiquaries ; elected A sso- 

 date of the Royal Academy ; appointed architect for new buildings and re- 

 pairs in the royal parks, woods, and forests, July ; designed and executed 

 extensive alterations and additions at Bagden House, for the Earl of Ailes- 



barv- 



1796. Designed and executed extensive alterations and additions at Hin- 

 ton St. George," for Earl Paulett ; designed and executed a house at Reading, 

 for L. Austwick, Esq. 



1797 9. Designed and executfid alterations and additions to Holwood 

 House, tlie seat of the Right Hon. W. Pitt. 



1797-8. Erected a house in Stratton-street, Piccadilly, for Col. Graham ; 

 dfsigned and executed alterations and additions to a house for the Countess 

 of Pembroke, Grosvenor-sqnare. 



1799. 09'ered himself candidate for the surveyorstip of the East India 

 Company ; published a letter to the Earl Spencer, K.G. 



1799-1808. Designed and executed extensive alterations and additions 

 to a house in St. James's-square, for Samuel Thornton, Esq. 



181)0-1. Designed and executed extensive alterations and additions to 

 Aynho, Bucks, the seat of W. R. Cartwright, Esq. 



1801. Designed and executed the banking-house in Fleet-street, for 

 Messrs. Praeds and Co. 



1802. Elected Royal Academician; designed and executed alterations 

 and additions at Albury Park, the seat of Samuel Thornton, Esq. ; ditto, at 

 Cricket Lodge, near Cliard, the seat of the Viscount Bridport. 



1804. Designed and executed the obelisk in the maiket-place at Read- 

 ing, erected at the expense of E. Simeon, Esq. ; built a large house, count- 

 ing-houses, warehouses, &c., in Fountain. court, Aldermanbury, for W. A. 

 Jackson, Esq. ; a villa, for himself, at Ealing ; designed and executed altera- 

 tions and additions to Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall, the seat of Lord 

 Eliot, afterwards Earl of St. Germans. 



1804-1807. Designed and executed alterations and additions at Ramsey 

 Abbey, Huntingdonshire, the seat of W. li. Fellowes, Esq. 



1804-1806. Designed and executed alterations and additions to a house 

 at Roehampton, for John Thomson, Esq. 



1805-1819. Designed and executed alterations and additions to a house 

 in St. James's-sqnare, for Lord Eliot, and tlie Earl of St. Germans. 



1805-1806. Designed and executed the Gothic Library, at Stowe House, 

 Bucks. 



1806-1807. Alterations and additions to Macartney House, Blackheath, 

 the seat of the Hon. G. F. Lyttleton. 



1806. Elected professor of architecture, in the Royal Academy. 

 1H06-1811. Erected a mansion at Moggerhanger, in Bedfordshire, for 



Stephen Thornton, Esq. 



1807. Erected a monumental tomb, in the church-yard, at Leytonstone, 

 in Essex, for Samuel Bosanquet, Esq.; appointed clerk of the works of the 

 Royal Hospital, at Chelsea. 



i808. Made designs for the completion of Taymouth Castle, the seat of 

 the Earl of Breadalhane ; fur the Royal Academical Institution, at Belfast ; 

 designed and executed a mausoleum, ailjoining the house of Mr. Deseufans, 

 in Charlotie-street, Portland-place. 



1808-1810. Designed and executed the five new bouses in Princes-street, 

 forming " New Bank Buildings." 



1809. Designed and executed the new infirmary, at Chelsea Hospital ; 

 27th March, read the first lecture. Royal Academy. 



1810. Repeated the first lecture. Royal Academy, January 8 ; lectures 

 stopped, at the fourth lecture, on January 29 ; designed and executed altera- 

 tions and additions to Whitley Abbey, near Coventry, the seat of the Right 

 Hon. Lord Hood. 



1811. Designed and executed the entrance to the London Dock Company 

 House, and to the counting-house of Messrs. Thellusson and Co., in Meeting- 

 house. court. Old Jewry. 



1812. January 9, Lectures resumed. Royal Academy; designed and exe- 

 cuted a house in Park-lane, for Mr. Robins; alterations and additions to 

 Everton-house, Bedfordshire, the seat of William Astell, Esq. ; designed and 

 budt his own house, 13, Lincoln's-inn-fields; the New Gallery, at Dulwich 

 College, to receive the collection of pictures, bequeathed by Sir Francis 

 Bourgeois, and a mausoleum, wherein are deposited the remains of Sir F. 

 Bourgeois and Mr. and Mrs. Desenfans. 



1813. Elected Grand Superintendent of Woiks to the United Fraternity 

 of Freemasons. 



1813-1815. Designed and built a house for the Rev. G. Monins, at Ring- 

 would, near Deal. 



1815. Designed and executed additions to the Earl of Hardwicke s house 

 in St. James's-square ; appointed one of the attached architects to the Office 

 of Works. 



1816-1817. Designed and built a farm-house, for Thomas Swinnerton, 

 Esq., at Butterton, in Staftordshire. 



1818. Designed and executed extensive alterations and additions to the 

 banking-house of Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co., in Threadneedle-street. 



1818". Alterations and additions to Mardeu Hall, near Hertford, the scat 

 of George Thornton, Esq. 



1818-1819. Designed and built the National Debt Redemption and Life 

 Annuities OtRce, in the Old Jewry. 



1820-1821. Designed and built houses in Regent-street, for Mr. Robins, 

 and others. 



1820-22. Designed and superintended the re-building of Wotton House, 

 in Buckinghamshire, the seat of the Marquis of Chandos. 



1820-1827. Designed and built the new law courts, at Westminster. 



1821. Chosen a Fellow of the Royal Society; designed and executed 

 Pelwall House, near Market Dravton, for Purney Silhtoe, Esq. 



1822. Designed and executed a new church at Walworth, in the parish 

 of St. Mary, Newington. 



1822-1824. Designed and executed the new Scala Regia, Royal Gallery, 

 and Library, in the House of Lords. 



1824. Designed and executed Trinity church, St. Marylebone; a new 

 chapel in the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green. 



1824-7. Designed and erected the new cfiices for the Board of Trade, and 

 the Privy Council offices. 



1825. Designed and erected additional committee-rooms. House of Lords. 



1826. Designed and erected additional committee-rooms and a new 

 library for the House of Commons ; the new grand Masonic Hall, adjoining 

 Freemason's Hall, in Great Quecn-slreet. , ■ . 



1827. Printed for private distribution, "Designs for public and private 

 buildings. 



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