Architect and stage designer. Born near Smithfield. Never married. He studied architecture in Italy and brought the new Palladian designs to Britain. Became Surveyor of the King's Works, the king's architect. Designed the first planned square (Covent Garden) in London and introduced the terraced house.
He collaborated with Ben Jonson to produce a number of masques for the court of King Charles I, for which they received equal payments. This came to an end when they fell out over their competing claims to the invention of the masques. Died at Somerset House.
Do try and see some of his writing - his spelling is delightfully impulsive and bizarre.
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Inigo Jones
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Carpenters' Hall - Inigo Jones
This memorial used to be in Puzzle Corner until walking guide Ian Swankie poi...
The Queen's Chapel
The Queen's Chapel, St. James's Palace Designed by Inigo Jones, the búilding ...
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Henry Flitcroft
Architect. His London work includes: church of St Giles in the Fields. Lord Burlington was his patron. Died at his Hampstead home.
1 memorial
Frank Risdon
Architect:, FRIBA, AADip,(Hons). Born Brixton. See Times Obituary.
1 memorial
Henry Holland
Architect. Born Church Row, Fulham, to an architect father, also Henry. Laid out sections of Knightsbridge and Chelsea, including Sloane Square. Also built the original Brighton Pavilion, although ...
1 memorial
T. Thornton Green
Architect active at least in this period, 1883-91. From The Builder, 1887: "Professional Partnership. — Mr. T. Thornton Green, surveyor, Poultry, announces that he has taken into partnership Mr. P...
1 memorial
Queen Eleanor’s Cross
The last of 12 Eleanor Crosses erected to celebrate Eleanor's last journey. Queen Eleanor of Castile died near Lincoln, with her husband, King Edward I, at her bedside, and was to be buried in Wes...
2 memorials
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Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital
The wonderful Lost Hospitals of London provides information: The Royal Westminster Infirmary for the Cure of Diseases of the Eye was founded by George James Guthrie (1785-1856). Clinics were initi...
1 memorial
Queen Henrietta Maria
Born at the Louvre Palace in Paris on 16 or 26 November, daughter of the King of France. Married King Charles I on 13 June 1625 and the couple went on to have two sons who became King Charles II a...
2 memorials
Daniel, Elisabeth and Margaret Reardon
Father, mother and sister to Miss Ellen Reardon who, via a bequest, erected drinking fountains in their memory. Margaret died 13 January 1876. Ellen died in 1880 so the parents were dead by then too.
2 memorials
Lord Llangattock, John Rolls
Landowner, Conservative politician, socialite, local benefactor and agriculturalist. 1st Baron Llangattock. Based in Wales, at the Llangattock estate. Prominent member of the Anti-Vivisection Socie...
2 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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