| Husband: | Joseph Jopling (1788-1867) | |
| Wife: | Elizabeth Gamon (c. 1786-1855) | |
| Children: | Joseph Jopling (1818-1904) | |
| Name: | Joseph Jopling | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 9 Jun 1788 | Cotherstone, Yorkshire |
| Baptism | 25 Aug 1788 (age 0) | Independent, Cotherstone, Yorkshire |
| Census | 1841 (age 52-53) | Architect, Furness Abbey, Dalton, Cumberland |
| Census | 1851 (age 62-63) | 6 Bridge Road, St Johns Wood, Marylebone (can't decipher occupation!) |
| Occupation | 1855 (age 66-67) | Author: A key to proportions of the Parthenon, published by the author, 6 Bridge Road, St Johns Wood, 1855. |
| Census | 1861 (age 72-73) | Rents from houses, 6 Vassel Terrace, Kensington (widower) |
| Death fact | 1867 (age 78-79) | 1867 Jun Q, Kensington, 1a/60 (aged 78) |
| Death | 10 May 1867 (age 78) | 6 Vassall Terrace, Kensington, Middlesex |
| Burial | 16 May 1867 | All Souls, Kensal Green, Middlesex |
| Name: | Elizabeth Gamon | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 1786 | London |
| Census | 1851 (age 64-65) | Wife in household |
| Death | 1855 (age 68-69) | 6 Bridge Road, St Johns Wood, Marylebone, Middlesex |
| Burial | 13 Nov 1855 | All Souls, Kensal Green, Middlesex (aged 69) |
| Name: | Joseph Jopling | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse 1: | Elizabeth Attfield (1822-1855) | |
| Spouse 2: | Louisa Attfield (1827-1906) | |
| Birth | 28 Jun 1818 | St Marylebone, Middlesex |
| Baptism | 3 Sep 1818 (age 0) | Milton Princes And Wilson Street Independent, London |
| Census | 1841 (age 22-23) | Living with parents at Furness Abbey |
| Occupation | 6 Sep 1849 (age 31) | Civil engineer, Finchley Road |
| Census | 1851 (age 32-33) | Civil engineer, 2 Clifton Road, Marylebone |
| Occupation | 1859 (age 40-41) | Civil engineer, 2 Abingdon Villas West, Kensington (on son Frederick's birth cert.) |
| Census | 1871 (age 52-53) | Civil engineer, Church Road, Watford |
| Census | 1881 (age 62-63) | Civil Engineer, St David's Ward, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | 1882 (age 63-64) | Assistant city engineer & draughtsman, 29 Winchester, Toronto (Toronto City Directory 1882) |
| Census | 1891 (age 72-73) | Civil engineer, St Thomas Ward, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Death | 18 Jul 1904 (age 86) | York, Ontario, Canada |
JOPLING, Joseph (c.1789-1867) was the son of Joseph Jopling of Cotherstone, near Barnard Castle. Nothing is known of his training, but he was presumably the J Jopling who exhibited a 'Design for a Gothic Church' at the Royal Academy in 1816. He subsequently practised in London as a civil engineer and architect and was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1824. His professional interests included fireproof construction, slate quarrying and railway surveying, and the Society of Arts gave him a Gold Medal for an improvement in the construction of the ribs of groined arches. He was well known as an authority on theories of proportion and architectural draughtsmanship and was the inventor of a method of drawing curves which he published as 'The Septenary System of generating Curves by continued motion...", 1823. ... As an architect, Jopling's only recorded works appear to have been the Greek Revival Pantechnicon (a furniture repository, latterly 'Sotheby's Belgravia') in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, which he designed for Seth Smith in 1830-31, and the Column at Ammerdown Park, Somerset, in memory of T.S. Joliffe, 1853-55. He died in Kensington on 10 May 1867 leaving at least three sons, one of whom, Charles Michael Jopling (1820-1863) was a civil engineer.
H. Colvin, A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840, pp.596-7 (Google Books)
Ammerdown Memorial, 1853
near Buckland House, Somerset
Thomas Samuel Joliffe was a wealthy landowner and an MP when he died aged 78 in 1924. His bachelor son, John, inherited the estate and in 1853 commissioned Joseph Jopling, a civil engineer and architect to built the monument. He chose an elevated part of the estate making the glass-topped dome 700 feet above sea level. John Joliffe died one year later and his younger brother the 73-year-old Rev Thomas Robert Joliffe, completed the column.
Public Monument and Sculpture Association National Recording Project
http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/BLM/SO24.htm
Designs for agricultural buildings, including labourers’ cottages, farm-houses and out-offices, conveniently arranged around fold-yards, and adapted to farms of various descriptions : to which are prefixed, an essay on the improvement of the condition of cottagers (etc) . Joseph Jopling, architect, editor. Author: Waistell, Charles, London, Longman (etc) ("and by the editor, No.24 Somerset Street, Portman Square") 1827.
First and only edition of this extensive book on the planning and design of farm buildings, based on the unpublished writings of Charles Waistell (died 1825), Chairman of the Committee of Agriculture of the Society of Arts, and edited for publication by Joseph Jopling (c.1789-1867), one of Waistell’s nephews. Waistell had experience in this specialist area going back to the 1770s, and this is the book to have if one wants to understand the practicalities of planning and constructing farmhouses, farmyards and outbuildings in late eighteenth-century Britain. Incidental references in the text show that Waistell knew personally both the prison reformer John Howard and the architect John Carr of York; while his nephew Jopling, an architect and civil engineer, was later to write a number of highly regarded books on the theory of perspective drawing. "Waistell’s principal aim was to ameliorate the poor living conditions of rural labourers while at the same time increasing agricultural production."
http://www.abebooks.de/servlet/SearchResults?an=WAISTELL+(Charles)
Retrieved 05.12.2009
JOPLING Joseph, 1 June 1867. Letters of Administration of the Personal Estate and effects of Joseph Jopling late of 6 Vassall Terrace Kensington in the County of Middlesex Gentleman a Widower deceased who died 10 May 1867 at 6 Vassall Terrace aforesaid were granted at the Principal Registry to Joseph Jopling of 6 Vassall terrace aforesaid Gentleman the Son and one of the Next of Kin of the said Deceased he having been first sworn. Effects under £200.