Scott, George Gilbert Jr., | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

SCOTT, George Gilbert Jr. (1839-1897), a member of the Scott family dynasty of architects of London, England. His father was Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), and his two sons were Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and Adrian Gilbert Scott (1883-1963), and all three generations of the Scott family can be credited with works in Canada. After the death of his father in 1878, George G. Scott Jr. was called in by the Anglican church authorities in Newfoundland to complete the work of his father on Anglican Cathedral in St. John's, Nfld. which had begun construction nearly 40 years earlier. A complete illustrated dossier of the plans and elevations for this work in Newfoundland was published in The Builder [London], xl, 22 Jan. 1881, 99-101, illus. & descrip.; and in The Building News [London], xlix, 18 Sept. 1885, 446, descrip. and illus.; and 30 Oct. 1885, 690, ff. It took nearly a decade for G.G. Scott Jr. to complete this work, but the Great Fire in St. John's in July 1892 caused damage to the fabric of this building, and, nearly 5 years later, the Cathedral rebuilding effort was still underway, supervised by Scott Jr. (Evening Telegram [St. John's], 24 June 1896). His death the following year in London in 1897 brought an end to his role of this Canadian project. George Gilbert Scott Jr. died on 6 May 1897 (obituary The Times [London], 10 May 1897, 8; obituary The Builder [London], lxxii, 12 June 1897, 531; biog. and list of works in the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1982, Vol. 4, 16-17; biog. R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, pub. 2001, p. 559-560)