Sir Giles Gilbert Scott RA
Born 9 November 1880
Died 8 February 1960
Active: 1918 - 1934
Country of birth and death: England
Architect
Born in London
Wealth at death: £98,965 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 3 May 1960
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1921 - 1928
Served on the Selection Committee (one of six elected members) in 1921. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1920', (1921), p. 32. Served on the Schools Committee in 1922. See 'Annual Report, 1921', (1922), p. 31. Served on the Selection Committee (junior half of the Council) in 1923. See 'Annual Report, 1922', (1923), p. 34. Served again on the Schools Committee in 1924 and 1926, and on the Selection Committee (junior half of the council) in 1926. In 1927, he served on the selection committee (junior half of the Council) and on the Schools Committee. Served on the Schools Committee in 1928.
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
26 April 1918 - 26 April 1922
Elected RA in 1922.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
27 March 1922 - 1 January 1956
Then became Senior RA until his death in 1960. Scott's Diploma work was entitled 'Liverpool Cathedral: Interior View of the East Endm from the South Choir Stall'. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1922', (1923), p. 70.
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1923 - 1947
Served as a Member of the Council from 1923 to 1924, 1927 to 1928, 1931 to 1932, 1935 to 1936, from 1940 to 1941, and from 1946 to 1947. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1922', (1923), p. 32.
Personal and Professional Connections
Granddaughter/grandson/grandchild of George Gilbert Scott
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert Ledward
22 February 1927
For RA.
Nominator of John Tweed
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
10 December 1928
For RA.
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1922, 1923 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1923
pp. 32-34, 70
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1924, 1925 Royal Academy Annual Reports
20 February 1925
p. 29.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Gavin Stamp, ‘Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert (1880–1960)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35987, accessed 17 Aug 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.15, p.19, p.41, p.61, p.70, p.149.
Citing this record
'Sir Giles Gilbert Scott RA', 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=msib2_1215699521, accessed 01 Jun 2023]
