Robert Hopper Maples
Born 1836 (Circa)
Active: 1851 - 1898
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, architectural sculptor, stone carver
Born in Newington, Surrey. He was the son of the sculptor, Cornelius Maples (born c.1807 and active until about 1851). On 18 April 1866 he married Leonora Garland who was a daughter of the architectural sculptor and modeller Thomas Priest Garland. In his memoirs, the architect Thomas Graham Jackson states that 'Maples' was the head carver at Farmer and Brindley and worked on Jackson's buildings for about twenty-two years (from about 1876-1898). See 'Recollections of Thomas Graham Jackson 1835-1924', edited by Basil H. Jackson, Oxford University Press, 1950 p. 142.
Locations
Address Upper Priory Birmingham | View on map
1841 (Circa)
Address Abbey Lane Hampstead London | View on map
1851 (Circa)
Lived next door to Thomas Garland who was the architectural modeller for the Palace of Westminster
Address 4 Walcot Place West Kennington Road London | View on map
1861 (Circa)
Maples was a 'visitor' staying with Berthold Ziar (a German mathematician) and his wife
Address 30 Kempsford Road Lambeth London | View on map
1871
Lodging in the house of Joseph Sallis, iron moulder (born c.1827 in Marlborough, Wiltshire)
Institutional and Business Connections
Worked for Farmer and Brindley
Maples may have been a senior carver at Farmer and Brindley c.1876-98. Based on 'Recollections of Thomas Graham Jackson 1835-1924', edited by Basil H. Jackson, Oxford University Press, 1950 p. 142.
Personal and Professional Connections
Daughter/son/child of Cornelius Maples
Related to Thomas Priest Garland
Maples was married to Garland's daughter, Leonora in April 1866
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Architectural carver (unemployed)'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Sculptor'
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
2004
HO107 piece 1143 folio 1/9 page 11
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2004
Class: HO107; Piece: 1492; Folio: 368; Page: 40; GSU roll: 87821
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
Class: RG9; Piece: 353; Folio: 157; Page: 5; GSU roll: 542621
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 663 folio 131 page 28
London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
Name: Robert Hopper Maples
Age: Full Age
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1866
Spouse Name: Leonora Garland
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 18 Apr 1866
Parish: Newington St Mary
Borough: Southwark
Father Name: Cornelius Maples
Spouse Father Name: Thomas Priest Garland
Register Type: Parish Register
Citing this record
'Robert Hopper Maples', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1279966960, accessed 19 Oct 2021]
