NASH, JOHN (1752 - 1835), architect

Name: John Nash
Date of birth: 1752
Date of death: 1835
Gender: Male
Occupation: architect
Area of activity: Art and Architecture
Author: Thomas Mardy Rees

b. at Cardigan. He was apprenticed to Sir Robert Taylor and afterwards settled near Carmarthen. He was persuaded by a number of friends to start in business as an architect; this he did, becoming well-known almost at once. He designed the Cardiganshire county gaol at Cardigan, and the west front and the chapterhouse in S. Davids cathedral. He moved to London and became world-famous for his work on Regent's Park and the terraces adjoining it, Regent Street, and the Marble Arch. He was a generous patron of artists. He d. 13 May 1835 at East Cowes.

Author

Reverend Thomas Mardy Rees, (1871 - 1953), Neath

Sources

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography;
Papworth, An encyclopædia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical (London 1888);
T. M. Rees, Welsh painters, engravers and sculptors, 1527–1911 (1912).

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Published date: 1959

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Corrections

NASH, JOHN.

According to Sir John Summerson, keeper of Soane Museum, and author of John Nash, Architect to King George IV (1935), he was b. in London, his father being a millwright at Lambeth. He claimed to be of Welsh blood, but was related to the Nash family of Worcestershire. Add to bibl. John Nash; a complete catalogue (1991); R. Suggett, John Nash, architect in Wales (1995).

Published date: 1997