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.


POSS Death 1807 per google books; downloaded as pdf
Annual Register, Volume 49
edited by Edmund Burke
per table of contents “Chronicle” pages 353 - 537
births ..........537
marriages ....539
promotions..541
deaths..........547
sherriffs.......583
ON page 554, right column, “11 Mrs Jupp, widow of Richard Jupp, esp, late architect to the East India Company.”
pg 385 of 1069 in pdf