Basic Biographical Details Name: | John Elmsly Inglis | Designation: | | Born: | 1861 | Died: | | Bio Notes: | John Elmsly Inglis was born in 1861 and was probably a native of St Andrews, where he first went to school. Thereafter he was educated at the High School, Dundee, and was articled to Young & Meldrum of Dundee from 1877 to 1882. Because of recession he appears to have found it difficult to obtain a place in another office, working for Alexander Matthew, builder, Edinburgh, for one year, and then another for Kinnear Moodie & Co. He then spent some time with the Edinburgh architect Alexander McTavish and with B Herbert Fawcett, who may have been in some kind of informal partnership with McTavish as they both operated from 74 George Street in the mid-1880s, before obtaining a place in H M Prison Commissioners Architects Office in Edinburgh.
He moved to London in the mid-1880s, studying for some time at the RA Schools and publishing sketches in 'The Architect' (1884), and commenced independent practice in 1887 with an office at 9 Great Russell Street, continuing in his artistic pursuits as well as in architecture. He published articles and sketches in 'The Builder' and the 'Art Annual' (1887), exhibited five designs for bookplates at the Ex Libris Society Liverpool, and provided souvenir sketches for 'Julius Caeser' and 'King John' at Her Majesty's Theatre. Much of his work involved assisting other practitioners, including the painters Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Sir Edward John Poynter, presumably on architectural backgrounds, and the architectural offices of St Aubyn & Wadling, Alfred Hessel Tiltman, the Great Eastern Railway Company (under the engineer John Wilson), Richard Creed, Robert Braxton Perress and the London School Board before finally settling in the LCC Architects Department in 1910. He was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, his proposers being Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (an honorary fellow), Henry John Wadling, and John Stacey Davis of St Aubyn's office. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 9, Great Russell Street, London, England | Business | 1911 * | | | | 15, Holly Mount, Hampstead, London, England | Private | 1911 * | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | British Architectural Library, RIBA | 2001 | Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | L v14 no901 |
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