NameRichard Jupp
Birthabt 1728
Death17 Apr 1799
OccupationArchitect
FatherRichard Jupp of Clerkenwall (1700-~1780)
MotherSarah Bibings (1700-1734)
Misc. Notes
name from the will of Richard Jupp - transcribed:
Richard Jupp (the father) Will
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I Richard Jupp of ... Lyon Street in the parish of Saint Colin? in Clerkenwell in the county of ... make and publish this to be my last will and testament that is to say I give to my sister Sarah Jupp ... annuity or yearly sum of ten pounds during her life and to my sister Carrinah Porter ... annuity or yerly sum of ten pounds during her life the said ... annuities to be paid to my said sisters ... by two equal half yearly payments on the fifth day of april and the tenth day of october in every year ... that oa all ... and without any ... or abatement whatsoever the first half yearly payment of this said ... annuities to begin and be made on the first of ... days of payments as shall ... after my death and I direct that my executors ... after ... shall by and from my personal estate purchase ... three per cent ... annuities the .... of will from .... and pay this said ... annuities given to my sisters as aforesaid and that they my said executors shall stand ... of ... Bank annuities in trust to pay and apply the yearly interest and dividends thereof as .... shall be to ... payable in .... of the said annuities resoectively and after ..... I ... of my said sister Sarah Jupp ... of the said Bank annuities and after the ... of my said sister Carrinah Porter? the other ... thereof shall respectively fall into the .... part of my personal estate and effects and go as ... is ... in after disposed of also ... my sons Richard Jupp and William Jupp fifty pounds ... to be paid to them respectively within three calender months ... after my death also I give to my grandson Richard Webb Jupp oldest son of my said son William Jupp ... hundred pounds and to my grandson William Jupp ... son of my said son William Jupp one hundred pounds the said .... to my said grandsons to be paid to them respectively when they shall respectively attain the age of twenty six years without any interest for the same in the mean time and in ... my said grandsons or either of them shall die before me or before they shall respectively attain this said age then I direct that this said ..... or .... so given to him or them so .... shall fall into the residuary part of my
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personal estate and efects and go as ... after disposed of also I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Jupp for her own use all my household goods plate ... books furniture and implements of household and all my cloathes and wearing apparel whatsoever and also all my watches rugs and ... and my chariot and horses also I give and bequeath to Samuel Smith of Chapham in the county of Surrey Esquire and my said son William Jupp four thousand pounds of lawful .. of Great Britain in trust to .... the same ... Government

1768 Livery of London Wm Jupp; UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893; image 680 of 917 @ancestry.com; Source Information:Ancestry.com. UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: London, England, UK and London Poll Books. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library.
Name: William Jupp
Poll Year: 1768
Parish or Rectory: Livery of London
also Richard Jupp
and Richard Jupp jun

News1797 WilliamJupp Surveyor.pdf
The Times (London, Greater London, England)
01 Nov 1797, Wed
Page 3
On Friday last, the Merchant Taylors’ Company appointed Mr William Jupp their Surveyor, in the room of his Uncle, Richard Jupp Esq, who has resigned.

News1798 WilliamJupp Surveyor.pdf
The Times (London, Greater London, England) @newspapers.com
26 Jun 1798, Tue
Page 3
“The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers have been pleased unanimously to elect Mr William Jupp of New Ormond Street, their Surveyor, in the stead of his uncle, Richard Jupp Esq., who has resigned”

Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 Supplement (Vol· 22) > Biographies > Page 707 of 1350 @ancestry.com; Source Information: Ancestry.com. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. Volumes 1–20, 22. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922.
Name: Richard Webb Jupp
Birth Date: 1767
Death Date: 1852
Father's Name: William Jupp

News1799 RichardJupp PedimentDescription.pdf
The Times (London, Greater London, England)
05 Apr 1799, Fri
Page 2
The Directors of the EAST INDIA Company being desirous to accomodate the Public, by opening the foot path in Leadenhall street ( which by permission of the City of LOndon has been widenedand improved), although the PORTICO is unfinished for the want of the thfigure of EUROPE at the Wast Angle of the Pediment, have ordered the scafolding to be taken down to the beginning of the WEST WING, and the entrance into the New Buildings under the POrtico to be opened by MOnday next.
This Building has been executed with great attention and dispatch; the ARCHITECTURE is the DESIGN of RICHARD JUPP Esq. the Company’s SUrveyor - which has given great satisfaction to the Court of Directors - the WEST WING will be finished by Midsummer next, when the Building will appear to more advantage.
We are favored by Mr Jupp with the following description of the Pediment:
COMMERCE - represented by MERCURY, attended by NAVIGATION, and followed by TRITONS and and SEA HORSES, is introducing ASIA to BRITANNIA, at whose feet she pours out her treasures.
The KING is holding the Shield of Protection over the head of BRITANNIA and of LIBERTY, who is embraced by here - by the side of his Majesty sits ORDER - attended by RELIGION and JUSTICE.
In the background is the CITY BARGE, etc, near to which stand INDUSTRY and INTEGRITY. The THAMES fils the angle to the right hand , and the GANGES the angle towards the East.
The SENTIMENT of this Composition is - that a NATION can then only be truly prosperous, when it has a KING who makes RELIGION and JUSTICE the basis of its Govnernment, and a CONSTITUTION, which while it secures the Liberties of the People, maintains a due subordination in the several ranks of society, and where the integrity of the People secures to each individual those advantages which industry creates and cultivates.

News1799 JuppEastIndia Death.pdf
The Times (London, Greater London, England)
19 Apr 1799, Fri
Page 3
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the death of Mr Jupp, Surveyor and Architect to the Company, was reported to the Court, which adjourned at 6 o’clock till Wednesday next.

From Google Books:
A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840
By Howard Colvin, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Edition: 4, illustrated
Published by Yale University Press, 2008
ISBN 0300125089, 9780300125085
1334 pages
p 598-599 Jupp, Richard (1728-1799), was the son of Richard Jupp of Clerkenwell, Master of the London Carpenters’ Company in 1768, to who he was apprenticed, being made free of the company in 1749. Nothing is known of his architectural training, but the fact that he was one of the original members of the Architects’ Club would imply that, in accordance with its rules, he studied architecture in Italy or France.
Jupp succeeded James Steere (d 1759) as architect to GUY’S HOSPITAL, where he supervised the building of the west wing in 1774-7 and remodelled the principal facade in 1777-8 [RA Cawson & THE Orde, The Design and Building of Mr Guy’s Hosptial, Guy’s Hospital Reports 118 (2), 1969]. He also designed DYERS” HALL, DOWGATE HILL, 1768-70, rebuilt 1839-40. [Dyers’ Company minutes, Guildhall Library MS 8164/5 pp216-17, 219, 221, 237]
In 1774 Jupp designed PAINS HILL HOUSE, nr COBHAN SURREY, for Benjamin Bond Hopkins, who had just purchased the estate from the Hon Charles Hamilton. The ‘principal front’ was exhibited at the Royal Academy under his name in 1778. The house was enlarged by Decimus Burton in 1831-2, and Jupp’s portico, awkwardly placed between flanking bows, was removed in the nineteenth century (C Life, 2 Jan 1958). In about 1790 Jupp altered or remodelled WILTON PARK nr BEACONSFIELD BUCKS (dem 1967) for Josias Dupre, Governor of Madras. [J Dugdale, The British Traveller i, 1819, 138] LEE MANORHOUSE KENT, built in 1772 by Thomas Lucas, has been attributed to him for reasons given in E&J Birchenoubh The Manor House, Lee, Lewisham 1971, 61-2.
For over thirty years (1768-99) Jupp was surveyor to the East India Company, for which he deigned several warehouses in London, including the BENGAL WAREHOUSE in NEW STREET 1760-70, those between Hounsditch and Middlesex Street 1792-9 (dem c1910), others on the south side of Crutched Friars 1796-9 (mostly dem 1979) [Minutes of the Court in India Office Records, B116, ff 62, 772, B125, ff 151-2 and A/1/1, ff 402, 490, 507], and presumably those (now flats), off RADCLIFFE HIGHWAY 1795-6. The Upper Buildings of the EAST INDIA COMPANY”S ALMSHOUSES in POPLAR 1798-9 dem 1867, can also be attributed to him [Survey of London xliii, 109]
In 1796 it was decided to rebuild the EAST INDIA HOUSE in LEADENHALL STREET, and the Company, anxious to secure a worthy design for their new building, and evidently uncertain whether their surveyor was equal to the task, decided that he should be asked to take the advice of some of the leading architects if the day. Dance. Wyatt, Holland and Soane were mentioned, but Soane’s name was eventually withdrawn at Jupp’s insistance because he feared that this young and ambitious man, already Architect to the Bnk of England, would seek to deorive him of the commission altogether. Unfortunately for Jupp, Soane was at this time the victim of some surrilous writings which James Wyatt was unwise enough to read aloud at a meeting of the Architects’ Club (of which Jupp was a member); and when the unhappy Jupp, in an endeavor to placate Soane by exposing his enemies, sent him a copy of one of these pamphlets, he merely succeeded in identifying his conduct over the East India House with the personal attack on Soane. An interview, at which, according to Soane, Jupp made himself seem “a knave talking lie an honest man” did nothing to mend matters, and in spite of Dance’s counsels of moderation, Soane, while privately preparing plans for the new East India House, endeavored unsuccessfully to bring Jupp’s conduct before the General Court of Proprietors.
Meanwhile Jupp had addressed a pathetic letter to the Directors, reminding them of his 29 years of faithful service, and imploring them not to deprive him of this opportunity of ditinguishing himself. This had its effect. On 9 August 1796 Jupp was directed to prepare plans without reference to other architects, and on 23 September these plans were accepted. The building was begun under Jupp’s direction the following year, and was substantially complete by the time of his death on 17 April 1799. Although Jupp apprears to have been responsible for the plan of the building and certainly for its execution, there is reason to believe that the facade was in fact designed for him by Henry Holland. This was not known at the time: in 1798 Jupp exhibited the design at the Royal Academy as his own work ans it was credited to him in Britton & Pugin’s Public Buildings of London ii 1828, 77-89. However, a drawing of the facade inscribed by Soane “Henry Holland Architect 1796” appears to establish the latters involvement beyond a doubt [N Brawer The Anonymous Architect of the Indoa House, Georgian Group Jnl, vii 1997; see also Builder xiii, 1855, 423, 437]
Jupp eveidently designed PARK FARM PLACE, ELTHAM, KENT (now LONDON) for Sir William James, Bart., one of the Directors of the East India Company, for in 1778 the painter Rigaud was employed by Jupp to decorate one of the ceilings [Memoir of JF Rigaud ed Pressly, Walpole Soc., 50, 1984, 63], and after James’ death his widow commissioned Jupp to design (1784) SEVERNDROOG CASTLE, SHOOTER’S HILL, KENT, a triangular Gothic tower “To Commemorate that Gallant Officer’s Achievement in the East Indies”, and in particular his capture in 1755 of the fortress of Severndroog on the coast of Malabar [J Dugdale, The British Travelloer iii, 1819, 245]
[APSD; MH Port in ODNB; Carpenters’ Company Records in Guildhall Library, London, MS 4335/4; India Office Library, records of the East India Company, especially B 1/123, pp 498, 642 (minutes of 9 Aug and 23 Sep 1796); Farington’s Diary 17 Aug 1799; AT Bolton, The Portrait of Sir John Soane, 1927, 59-79]
p599 Jupp, William (1734-1788), was one of the sons of Richard Jupp, Master of the Carpenters’ Company in 1768, to whom he was apprenticed, being made free of the company in 1753. He exhibited two designs for gentlemen’s seats at the Society of Artists ib 1763 and 1764, and an unexecuted design for a county house signed by him was at the Platt Hall Gallery, Rusholme, Manchester. He rebuilt the LONDEN TAVERN, BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHIN (dem 1876) after its destruction by fire in 1765. The entrance hall and principal staircase of CARPENTERS’ HALL, LONDON WALL,were erected to his designs, c 1780. The entrance hall was decorated in stucco work with figures and implements emblamatic of carpentry, and with the heads of Vitruvius, Palladio, Inigo Jones and Wren, executed by Bacon. The archway forming the entrance to the street was also designed by Jupp, with a bust of Inigo Jones by Bacon on the keystone. The staircase was damaged by fire in 1849 and the Hall itself was demolished in 1876. Both at Carpenters’ Hall and at the London Tavern, Jupp appears to have been assisted by William Newton, who certainly designed the Eating-Room and Ballroom of the latter building. Jupp was a warden of the Carpenters’ Company in 1781 and died on 16 November 1788. He was the father of Willam Jupp (d 1839) and of Richard Webb Jupp, who was Clerk to the Carpenters’ Company from 1796 to 1852. The latter’s son, Edward Basil Jupp, FSA (1812-1877), Clerk to the same company from 1852 to 1877, was the author of an Historical Account of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, 1848, 2nd ed 1887, from which the above particulars are largely derived. [APSD; ODNB; CHL Woodd, Pedigrees and Memorials of the Family of Woodd and the Family of Jupp, privately printed 1875, Carpenters’ Company Records in Guildhall Library, London, MS 4335/4]

Article: M. H. Port, ‘Jupp, Richard (1728–1799)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15169, accessed 23 May 2013]:
Richard Jupp (1728–1799): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15169
William Jupp the elder (1734–1788): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15171
William Jupp the younger (1770–1839): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15172
Richard Webb Jupp (1767–1852): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15170
Edward Basil Jupp (1812–1877): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15168
Jupp, Richard (1728–1799), architect and surveyor, born in London, was the elder son of Richard Jupp (fl. c.1700–c.1770) of St John's parish, Clerkenwell, master of the Carpenters' Company in 1768, to whom he was apprenticed, and possibly Sarah Bibings (fl. c.1700–c.1734). Jupp spent some time studying abroad; the Architects' Club, of which he was one of the fifteen founders in 1791, required its members to have studied architecture in Italy or France. Appointed architect to Guy's Hospital in 1759, he supervised construction of the west wing (1774–7) and remodelled the main front (1774–8). He also designed Dyers' Hall, Dowgate Hill (1768–70, rebuilt 1839), and designed or remodelled at least four country houses, including Painshill House, Cobham, Surrey, for Benjamin Bond Hopkins (the design for which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1778); Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire (c.1790) for Josias Dupré, governor of Madras; and Park Farm Place, Eltham, for Sir William James, bt, a director of the East India Company, for whose widow he constructed a commemorative triangular Gothic tower, Severndroog Castle, Shooter's Hill, Kent (1784).

Jupp's principal employment, however, was as surveyor to the East India Company from 1768: he designed several London warehouses, starting with the Old Bengal Warehouse, New Street (1769–71), with extensions towards Cutler Street and Middlesex Street in the 1790s (largely rebuilt 1978–82). When in 1796 a greatly extended front building to East India House, Leadenhall Street, was proposed, Jupp was instructed to take the advice of leading architects, including John Soane. Fearing that the aggressive Soane would obtain the commission for himself, Jupp secured his exclusion; but in trying to dissociate himself from anonymous attacks on Soane, he succeeded only in kindling Soane's enduring hostility. However, reminding the East India directors of his long service, Jupp obtained the commission for the new building (at an estimated cost of £47,000). It was 190 feet long, with Ionic portico. Surviving drawings indicate that Jupp owed the design of the façade to Henry Holland, who carried out Jupp's designs for the interior after his death. In his last years he canvassed for election to the Royal Academy.

Jupp married Rebekah Allen (d. in or after 1802), to whom he left the life interest in his substantial estate, said to amount to £35,000. He died suddenly on 17 April 1799 at his house, 6 King's Road, Holborn, leaving instructions to be buried very privately at midnight in Bunhill Fields. He was buried there six days later.
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