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SIR JOHN SOANE (1753-1837)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 296 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:SOANE (1753-1837)  , See also:English architect and See also:art See also:collector, was See also:born near See also:Reading of a humble See also:family whose name of See also:Swan he afterwards altered to See also:Soap or See also:Soane . His See also:talent as a boy attracted the See also:attention of See also:George See also:Dance, junior, the architect, who with other See also:friends helped him on . He won the Royal See also:Academy's See also:silver (1772) and See also:gold (1776) medals, and a travelling studentship, and went to See also:Italy to study (1777-1780) . Returning to See also:England he got into practice as an architect, and in 1784 married a See also:rich wife . He became architect to the See also:Bank of England, which he practically rebuilt in its See also:present See also:form, and did other important public See also:work . He became an A.R.A in 1795, and R.A. in 18o2, and See also:professor of See also:architecture to the Royal Academy in 18o6 . In 1831 he was knighted . In his See also:house in See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields he brought together a valuable antiquarian museum (now the Soane Museum), which in 18J5 he presented to the nation with an endowment; and there he died in 1837 .

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