George Gilbert Scott Jr.

George Gilbert Scott Jr. (8 October 1839 – 6 May 1897) was an English architect working in late Gothic and Queen Anne revival styles.

Known in later life as 'Middle Scott', he was the eldest son of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and father of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and Adrian Gilbert Scott, all also architects.

The last years of his life after the death of his father were marred by mental instability and excessive drinking. He died in the Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras, a building designed by his father, of cirrhosis of the liver.

Scott was born on 8 October 1839, in London, eldest son of Sir George Gilbert Scott and Caroline Oldrid. After a scholarship at Eton College, he began training at his father's office. He later obtained a Cambridge University degree in moral sciences at Jesus College in 1866.

During the 1860 and 1870s he worked for his father in his architectural practice. He married Ellen King Sampson in the 1870s.

Among the buildings he designed was St John the Baptist Church, Norwich, which became a Roman Catholic cathedral. He was also responsible for buildings in three of the University of Cambridge's colleges: Christ's, Pembroke and Peterhouse. He masterminded the main buildings of Dulwich College in South London. Some of his finest works, the churches of All Hallows, Southwark (1877), and St Agnes, Kennington (1880) were destroyed by Second World War bombing. His best remaining residential work is found in the Avenues area of Kingston upon Hull, which are in a Queen Anne revival style. Much of his work was in the Queen Anne revival style, or in imitation of later Gothic architectural styles.

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