SOUTHCOTT, John (1821-1895), a member of Southcott family of architects and builders who were active in St. John’s, Newfoundland from 1853 onward. His younger brother was James Thomas Southcott. Together, they operated the business known as “J. & J.T. Southcott, Architects, Carpenters and Builders” from 1864 or earlier (Hutchinson’s Newfoundland Directory for 1864-65, 202-03, with advert.). His son, John Thomas Southcott, later became a leading architect in that city. John Southcott was born in Devon, England in late 1821 and was baptised at St. Mary Major Church in Exeter on 19 December 1821. Southcott died at his residence on Monks Town Road in St. John’s on 17 May 1895 (obituary Evening Telegram [St. John's], 18 May 1895, 4; death notice St. John’s Daily News, 18 May 1895, 4; inf. Shane O’Dea, The Domestic Architecture of Old St. John’s, 1974, 19-21, illus.)
JOHN & JAMES T. SOUTHCOTT
(works in St. John’s, Nfld. unless noted)
BAY BULLS ROAD, a large residence for Mrs. David Baird, 1871 (Evening Telegram [St. John’s], 11 March 1890, 1, descrip. and sale notice)
KILBRIDE & WATERFORD BRIDGE VALLEY, ‘Beaconsfield’, the country residence for Hon. E.P. Morris, 1875 (Newfoundland Quarterly [St. John’s], ii, Dec. 1902, 4 and plate illus.)
SOUTHSIDE STREET, “The New House”, a pair of row houses for Capt. Edward White, erected for his two sons, 1876-78 (Terra Nova Advocate [St. John‘s], 20 July 1878, editorial and descrip.; George M. Story, ‘Building a St. John’s Victorian House’, in the Canadian Collector [Toronto], x, March/April 1975, 42-45, illus. & descrip.)
COCHRANE STREET, residence at 82 Cochrane Street, later owned by George Rendell, 1878-79 (Parks Canada, C.I.H.B. Manuscript Report No. 256, 215-18, illus. & descrip.)
DUCKWORTH STREET, a row of four attached houses for William Martin, c. 1880 (Parks Canada, C.I.H.B. Manuscript Report No. 256, 67-75, illus. & descrip.)
CIRCULAR ROAD, residence at No. 2 Circular Road, for Elizabeth Bond, mother of Sir Robert Bond, who later became Prime Minister of the Dominion of Newfoundland, built 1883-86 (Parks Canada, C.I.H.B. Manuscript Report No. 256, 47-50, illus. & descrip.)