George Gilbert Scott

Standard Name: Scott, George Gilbert

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Margaret Sandbach	The year before the wedding, her father-in-law acquired the estate of Hafodunos Hall at Llangernyw, Denbighshire, probably as a home for the young people. MS 's husband served as Justice of the Peace for...
Literary Setting	Ella D'Arcy	Oddly, D'Arcy chooses old-fashioned symbolic names for her two main male characters: more like an Anthony Trollope novel than one of the 1890s. Bishop Wise is unwise and the priest Herbert Fayler is a failure...

Timeline

23 April 1863

Queen Victoria selected architect George Gilbert Scott 's ornate design for the Albert Memorial.

Bayley, Stephen. The Albert Memorial: The Monument in its Social and Architectural Context. Scolar Press, 1981.

40-2, 142, 143-4

Homans, Margaret. Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876. University of Chicago Press, 1998, http://Susan Brown.

170

1904

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott ) began work on the Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool, a late masterpiece of Victorian Gothic which, however, was not completed until 1978.

Saint, Andrew. “The Danger of Giving In”. London Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2002, pp. 30-1.

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