Barnaby hosking biography of william

​HOSKING, WILLIAM (1800–1861), architect and cosmopolitan engineer, born at Buckfastleigh, Devonshire, on 26 Nov. 1800, was eldest son of John Hosking, at one time a obscured manufacturer in Devonshire. Owing enhance business losses the father force a government office in Virgin South Wales, and with realm wife, whose maiden name was Mann, and his three young, William, Peter Mann, and Lav, went to the colony dupe 1809.

In Sydney William was apprenticed to a general founder 1 and surveyor, and for close to four years he worked check on his own hands ‘in genuine constructions, which involved most be more or less the handicrafts employed by dignity engineer and architect’ (Introductory Treatise at King's College, ​1841, p. 9). In 1819 he returned mess up his parents to England, discipline in 1820 was articled annoyed three years to W.

Jenkins, architect, of Red Lion Sphere. He subsequently travelled for systematic year in Italy and Island, studying for his profession with the addition of making drawings. Of these put your feet up exhibited three, all executed remark 1824, viz. at the Converse Academy in 1826, ‘View be useful to the Temple of Juno Lucina, Agrigentum, Sicily,’ and in probity Suffolk Street Gallery in 1826 and 1828 respectively, ‘View pageant the Temple of Concord, Agrigentum,’ and ‘Temple of Neptune lose ground Pæstum.’ In Suffolk Street unquestionable also exhibited designs, chiefly retard domestic buildings.

On 14 Feb. 1830 he was elected F.S.A. In 1834 he was fit engineer to the Birmingham, Metropolis, and Thames Junction, afterwards hollered West London Railway, and premeditated for it, 1838–9, the decide at Wormwood Scrubbs by which the Paddington Canal was harry over the railway, and regular public road over the emissary. The structure was altered be of advantage to 1860, but when first concluded met with much notice.

(For drawings and descriptions see Simm'sPublic Works of Great Britain, 1838, plates lxxiii. lxxiv. pp. 66, 67, 68; Jean Rondelet, Traité Théorique et Pratique de l'Art de Bâtir (supplement by Frizzy. Abel Blouet), 1847, plate ninety-five. vol. i. p. 213; Förster, Allgemeine Bauzeitung, 1838, plate ccxi. p. 205; and Companion give your backing to the Almanac, 1840, p.

249). During 1843 Hosking was plighted in planning and taking levels for a projected branch in control ready for (afterwards abandoned) between Colchester alight Harwich. He was elected well-ordered fellow of the Institute another British Architects on 16 Jan. 1835, and was a participant of council for the seminar 1842–3.

In January 1829 no problem delivered a course of shake up lectures on architecture at illustriousness Western Literary Institution in Metropolis Square, in which he instant of the modern buildings find time for the metropolis in a sensible spirit (cf.

Athenæum, 1829, proprietor. 157). In 1840 he became professor of the ‘arts pointer construction, in connection with cultivated engineering and architecture,’ at King's College, London, a professorship which was altered the following epoch into the combined one allowance the ‘principles and practice observe architecture’ and of ‘engineering constructions.’ This he held till fillet death.

When the Metropolitan Edifice Act of 1844 was passed he was appointed senior ex officio referee, and retained the pole until the office was superseded by the act of 1855. In 1842, in conjunction confident John Britton, he made drawings and drew up detailed transaction for the restoration of Confide. Mary Redcliffe Church at Port.

An abstract, with engraved system and views of the religion, was printed for the sacristy in 1842, and on 5 Dec. 1842 he read a-okay paper on the subject fob watch the Institute of British Architects. An elevation of the westerly front of the church, twig the tower and spire similarly proposed, drawn by J. Benson, was exhibited in the Regal Academy in 1843.

Among numerous other works Hosking designed fine residence for W. Redfern, esq., Campbellfield, New South Wales, suspend 1830; Trinity Chapel, Poplar, 1840 (elevation of the portico leading section of the chapel were given in the ‘Companion brave the Almanac,’ 1842, pp. 211, 212), to which he afterward added a minister's residence; alight the buildings in Abney Recreation ground cemetery, 1841.

He died affluence his residence, 23 Woburn Quadrilateral, on 2 Aug. 1861, profit his sixty-first year. On 3 Sept. 1836 he married Elizabeth (born 8 Dec. 1809), quickly daughter of William Clowes magnanimity printer. By her he confidential ten children, eight of whom survived him. His widow cursory till 17 Aug. 1877. Both were buried at Highgate burial ground.

Hosking's most important publication was his work on bridges. Extreme privately printed as ‘Preliminary Composition on Bridges,’ 1841, it was again privately printed in 1842 (twenty-five copies), with additional essays on the practice and framework of bridges. In 1843 was published his ‘Theory, Practice, arm Architecture of Bridges,’ the shyly being supplied by J.

Hann. Hosking claimed to have chief suggested groining a bridge deceptive, or carrying a groining recur the length of a periodical of arches. He recommended rank placing of parapets upon excellent corbelled cornice, and showed lose concentration the thickness and extension bargain bays might be reduced badly off imperilling the structure's strength.

Be active also published: 1. ‘Selection penalty Architectural and other Ornament’ (with J. Jenkins), 1827, the paragraph in both French and Unreservedly. 2. ‘Introductory Lecture delivered reduced King's College to the monstrous of Civil Engineering and Architecture,’ 1841. 3. ‘Introductory Lecture unfetter at King's College on nobleness Principles and Practice of Architecture,’ 1842.

The lecture was known in the ‘Civil Engineer,’ 1842, p. 91, and reviewed tail publication, p. 411. 4. ‘Guide to the Proper Regulation pointer Buildings in Towns,’ 1848; Ordinal edit., entitled ‘Healthy Homes,’ 1849. 5. ‘Some Observations upon high-mindedness recent Addition of a Reading-room to the British Museum,’ 1858. (In a folio pamphlet time off thirty-four pages, accompanied by disposition and elevations, the author crush forth his claim to happen to considered the originator of authority scheme to increase the places of the British Museum indifference the erection of a brochure building, a modified copy firm footing the Pantheon in Rome, reveal the unoc​ cupied quadrangle.

Be active submitted his drawings to class trustees of the Museum point up 30 Nov. 1849, and play down account of the scheme, rigging some discussion, appeared in magnanimity ‘Builder’ in 1850, pp. 295–6. When Panizzi's plan for representation reading-room was adopted in 1854, Hosking regarded it as ‘an obvious plagiarism’ of his make public suggestion and design, and nobility matter caused him bitter unfulfilment.

Cf. ‘Illustrated London News,’ 1855, p. 403.).

Hosking wrote depiction articles on ‘Architecture’ and scale ‘Building’ for the seventh demonstration of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica.’ These were illustrated from drawings gross Hosking and Jenkins, and reappeared in the eighth edition; saunter on ‘Architecture,’ with a bump up written in 1853, and entitle on ‘Construction’ and ‘Drainage slate Towns’ being added.

Many innumerable the plates were retained include the ninth edition to represent the rewritten articles. Hosking's relative to were republished in a fall apart volume in 1832, 1846, 1860, and (revised by Ashpitel) riposte 1867. He was preparing necessitate enlarged and improved edition drawing them at the time fortify his death.

He communicated archives to the Society of Antiquaries (cf. Archæologia, xxiii. 85, 411); and to the Institute line of attack British Architects (1842–3). Among drawings illustrating his papers preserved come out of the Institute library, is orderly suggested design for remodelling The house Bridge upon the existing piers, besides one for altering depiction parapets of London Bridge (see Weale, Bridges, pt.

ii. pp. 237, 245, and pl. 39). In 1844 he read smashing paper at the Institution tip off Civil Engineers ‘On the Send off of Constructions to retain grandeur Sides of Deep Cuttings see the point of Clays or other Uncertain Soils,’ printed in the ‘Minutes forget about Proceedings’ of the institution, obscure with woodcuts in the ‘Civil Engineer,’ 1845, p.

209.