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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 JOHN SOANE (1753-1837)  ,
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English architect and
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art
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collector, was born near
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Reading of a humble
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family whose name of Swan he afterwards altered to
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Soap or Soane . His talent as a boy attracted the attention of George Dance, junior, the architect, who with other friends helped him on . He won the Royal Academy's
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silver (1772) and gold (1776) medals, and a travelling studentship, and went to Italy to study (1777-1780) . Returning to England he got into practice as an architect, and in 1784 married a rich wife . He became architect to the
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Bank of England, which he practically rebuilt in its
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present form, and did other important public
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work . He became an A.R.A in 1795, and R.A. in 18o2, and professor of architecture to the Royal Academy in 18o6 . In 1831 he was knighted . In his house in Lincoln's
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Inn 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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