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Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753–1827)〔 Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840, 3rd ed. 1995, s.v. "Cockerell, Samuel Pepys".〕 was an English architect. He was a son of John Cockerell, of Bishop's Hull, Somerset, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet, for whom he designed the house he is best known for, Sezincote House, Gloucestershire, where the uniquely Orientalizing features inspired the more extravagant fantasy of the Brighton Pavilion.〔John Betjeman, "Sezincote, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire", ''Architectural Review'' 69 (May 1931:161-66)〕〔Christopher Hussey, "Sezincote", ''Country Life'', 85, 13 May and 20 May 1939〕〔Edward Malins, "Indian Influences on English Houses and Gardens at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century" ''Garden History'' 8.1 (Spring 1980:46–66)〕〔Howard Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840'', 3rd ed. 1995, ''s.v.'' "Cockerell, Samuel Pepys".〕 Through their mother they were great-great nephews of the diarist Samuel Pepys. ==Life== Cockerell received his training in the office of Sir Robert Taylor, to whom he allowed that he was indebted for his early advancements, which were largely in the sphere of official architecture. In 1774 he received his first such appointment, as Surveyor to the fashionable West End London parish of St George's Hanover Square. In 1775 he joined the Royal Office of Works as Clerk of Works at the Tower of London, largely a sinecure; in 1780 the clerkship at Newmarket was added. In spite of his reputation for diligence and competence, he lost these posts in the reorganisation of the Office of Works in 1782.〔Colvin 1995.〕 At the death of Taylor in 1788, Cockerell succeeded Sir Robert as Surveyor to the Foundling Hospital and Pulteney estates. In 1790 he presented the board of governors of the Foundling Hospital a project for the development of their considerable estate in Bloomsbury, London, which proceeded according to his plans, until he resigned and was succeeded in the post by his pupil Joseph Kay.〔The development of Bloomsbury and Cockerell's role are related in J. Olsen, ''Town Planning in London'' (Yale University Press) 1964:74–89.〕 He continued Taylor's work designing Admiralty House, Whitehall, as residence for the First Lord of the Admiralty, 1786–88.〔Colvin 1995.〕 Cockerell designed the architecture of much of the Bayswater area of London, including Sussex Gardens, but in other urban planning schemes he was less successful. As surveyor to the Bishop of London he drew up plans for the building up of the diocesan estate in Paddington,〔See the history of Paddington South.〕 but the scheme had only been begun, with Connaught Square, at the time of Cockerell's death, and a different plan was completed under his successor as Surveyor, George Gutch.〔Gordon Toplis, "The History of Tyburnia", in ''Country life'', 15 November 1973, noted in Colvin 1995.〕 Another abortive development about the same time was for a "Camarthen Square" on the Mortimer estate in Bloomsbury; eventually the land was purchased for the University of London. He designed a new tower for St Anne's Church, Soho in 1803. From 1806 he was employed as Surveyor to the East India Company.〔Colvin 1995〕〔((Tour UK) Historic Houses in Gloucestershire ) Retrieved 20 August 2007.〕 Among country houses, besides Sezincote he designed Daylesford, Gloucestershire a few miles distant from Sezincote, for another returned nabob, Warren Hastings.〔''Victoria County History: Worcestershire'', 1913 Which volume?〕〔Paul F. Norton, "Daylesford: S. P. Cockerell's Residence for Warren Hastings", ''The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'' 22.3 (October 1963:127–133).〕 Cockerell was approached by Hastings in July 1788, before Cockerell's appointment as Surveyor to the Admiralty. He had built an entrance and bridge at Whiteknights, near Reading, in Berkshire, for William Byam Martin, an acquaintance of Hastings'.〔The connection is noted in this context by Norton 1963:128.〕 Cockerell received payments through 1793, amounting to £13,300, for the house, for which Hastings spent some £60,000.〔Norton 1963:129.〕 In the severely undecorated elevations finished in warm golden Stanway limestone, windows are simply pierced in the ashlar masonry without even moulded surrounds. The central three-bay feature of the three-storey garden front, between projecting two-storey end ranges, is a hemicircular projection crowns by a low dome, with an order of attached columns of a rich Composite order. The dome reverses curves to rise in the center to a ball finial, a discreetly Indian feature.〔Raymond Head, ''The Indian style'' (Chicago, 1986).〕 Cockerell's entrance front has been considerably altered. Cockerell also designed Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire, now the home of the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Cockerell's pupils included the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820), who emigrated to the United States in 1795 and worked on the White House and the United States Capitol. His son, Charles Robert Cockerell, who trained in his office, also went on to become a famous architect. Samuel Pepys Cockerell is named on a plaque outside the OBE Chapel at St Paul's Cathedral as 'Surveyor to the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral' between 1811 and 1819. In 1797, Cockerell handled the sale of the Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, estate of Rev. Abraham Blackborne of Dagenham, Essex, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster.〔(Account of Samuel Pepys Cockerell relating to the sale of the estate of the Rev. Abraham Blackborne at Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, Archbishops of Canterburys Archives, Lambeth Palace Library, The National Archives, nationalarchives.gov.uk ). Rev. Blackborne, grandson of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, who had served Dagenham as its rector for 58 years, was likely son or nephew of Robert Blackborne, longtime Secretary of the Admiralty, and later Secretary of the East India Company. It was Robert Blackborne who introduced Samuel Pepys the diarist to the son of Blackborne's sister, one William Hewer, who served Pepys as servant, then went on to work with him in the Admiralty and became a close friend. Finally, Samuel Pepys retired to his former servant's estate in Clapham, London, where Pepys died, naming Hewer his executor. Pepys' nephew John Jackson, who inherited the extensive library of 3000 uniformly-bound volumes, followed his uncle's wishes in donating the library – including the then-unknown encoded personal journals of January 1660 to May 1669 – to their alma mater, Magdalene College, Cambridge University, where they reside today (see Pepys' second Will and codicils of 1703, National Archives of England and Wales).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Pepys Cockerell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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