- James Elmes
James Elmes (
15 October 1782 ,London –2 April 1862 ,Greenwich ) was an Englisharchitect ,civil engineer , and writer on the arts.Biography
He was educated at
Merchant Taylors' School , and, after studying building under his father, and architecture underGeorge Gibson , became a student at theRoyal Academy , where he gained the silver medal in 1804. He designed a large number of buildings in the metropolis, and was surveyor andcivil engineer to thePort of London , but is best known as a writer on the arts. In 1809 he became vice-president of theRoyal Architectural Society , but this office, as well as that of surveyor of the port of London, he was compelled through partial loss of sight to resign in 1828. He founded and edited the "Annals of the Fine Arts " between 1816 and 1820. He died inGreenwich in 1862.He was father of
Harvey Lonsdale Elmes .Works
*"Sir Christopher Wren and his Times" (1823)
*"Lectures on Architecture" (1823)
*"The Arts and Artists" (1825)
*"General and Biographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts" (1826)
*"Treatise on Architectural Jurisprudence" (1827), and "Thomas Clarkson: a Monograph" (1854)References
External links
*C. J. Robinson, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8733 ‘Elmes, James (1782–1862)’] , rev. Anne Pimlott Baker, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Jan 2008
*worldcat id|lccn-n85-828458
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