Sir George Gilbert Scott
Born 13 July 1811
Died 27 March 1878
Active: 1857 - 1860
Architect
Wealth at death: £120,000 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 11 April 1878
Works
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Architect of Monument to the Late Duchess of Gloucester, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Architect of Crimean War Memorial, near Westminster Abbey, London
Architect of Memorial of the Late Sir Charles Hotham, Melbourne Cemetery, Melbourne
Architect of Monument to the Late Dr Monk, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol
Institutional and Business Connections
Commissioned John Hardman and Company
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1926
Served on the Schools Committee in 1926. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1925', (1926), p. 34.
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1860 - 1878
Listed as a Council Member of the Royal Academy from 1860 to 1863. Not listed between 1864 and 1869, but listed again in 1870. The 1870 report notes that Scott 'accepted the rotation to serve on the Council, consequent upon the death of Mr. Creswick, but subsequently resigned on finding it impossible, from his numerous engagements, to fulfill the required duties'. The post was filled by the Keeper in March 1870: see Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Scott is listed again from 1877 until his death in 1878.
Submitted application to Royal Academy of Arts
1859 - 1860
Listed as having made a 'temporary deposit for diploma work'. See Royal Academy 'Annual Report', (1861), p. 34.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with John Birnie Philip
Collaborated with William Theed
Collaborated with John Richard Clayton
1860 (Circa)
Grandmother/grandfather/grandparent to Giles Gilbert Scott
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Gavin Stamp, ‘Scott, Sir George Gilbert (1811–1878)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24869, accessed 17 Aug 2009]
The Builder, Vol. 17, 29 January 1859
29 January 1859
p. 81
The Builder, Vol. 18, 13 October 1860
13 October 1860
p. 655
The Builder, Vol. 18, 14 April 1860
14 April 1860
pp. 232, 233
The Builder, Vol. XV, 3 October 1857
3 October 1857
p. 564
Citing this record
'Sir George Gilbert Scott', 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=msib5_1246450297, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
