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Personal and Professional Recollections of George Gilbert Scott

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3 Apr
Written by Robert Hoare
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Hello I’m Robert. I am the great great grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott. I hope you enjoy browsing my blog. My sister and I manage our family business Watts & Co. (which was founded by George Gilbert Scott Junior). A special thank you to Dr. Ian Toplis for all his research found on this website.

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Facts about the Scott Family

  1. The Scott family have designed cathedrals on 5 continents including Africa, Asia, Europe,  North America & Australia.

  2. Two members of the Scott family feature on the new British passport. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and Elizabeth Scott.

  3. Sir George Gilbert Scott is buried in Westminster Abbey in a grave, which he would have been pleased to learn, unearthed some of the earliest Roman remains discovered in the Abbey

  4. The iconic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who took inspiration from Sir John Soane’s wife mausoleum.

  5. Sir George Gilbert Scott at the age of just 33 built the tallest building in the world (At the time, St Nicholas’s Cathedral in Hamburg)

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