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ELMES, JAMES (1782-1862)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 296 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
ELMES, JAMES (1782-1862) , British architect, civil engineer, and writer on the arts, was born in London on the 15th of October 1782. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' school, and, after studying building under his father, and architecture under George Gibson, became a student at the Royal
Academy
 , where he gained the silver
medal
  in 1804. He designed a large number of buildings in the metropolis, and was surveyor and civil engineer to the port of London, but is best known as a writer on the arts. In 1809 he became vice-president of the Royal 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 died at Greenwich on the 2nd of
April
  1862. His publications were: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).


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