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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).
      • Some facts about the Scott family
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        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.

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        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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