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A Profile to my design for the better fortifying Edinburgh Castle, with a hornwork, and retrenchments within the same, November 1710
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A Profile to my design for the better fortifying Edinburgh Castle, with a hornwork, and retrenchments within the same, November 1710
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Skinner, William (b.1700, d.1780)
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Edwards, Talbot (b.1687, d.1719)
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Dury, Theodore (active 1670-1742)
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Skinner, Monier (active 1872)
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Skinner, Thomas (b.1804, d.1877)
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O'Brien, John (active 1709)
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1710
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This profile accompanies the plan at shelfmark MS.1649.Z.03/58c. The original work on the castle, designed and built by Theodore Dury (at shelfmark MS.1649.Z.03/58b) had not been thought to be adequate by Major John O'Brien, and Talbot Edwards was given the job of improving matters. The plan at shelfmark MS.1649.Z.03/58a shows the actual alterations which were carried out in 1710. This apparent quarrel is noted on several other plans, specifically from Stirling and Dumbarton. This sheet has the stamp of the Inspector General of Fortifications, rather than the stamp of the Board of Ordnance. It was handed down through his family from William Skinner, who was Chief Engineer for Scotland from 1746, and then of Great Britain, to his death in 1780, and was the architect of Fort George, Ardersier. It eventually came into the hands of his great-great-grandson Major Thomas Skinner (1804-1877), who wrote a provenance note on it when he passed it on to his own son, Lieutenant Monier Skinner, in 1872. Talbot Edwards married William Skinner's older sister, and brought him up after the death of their parents, and presumably passed these plans on to him.
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This profile accompanies the plan at shelfmark MS.1649.Z.03/58c. The original work on the castle, designed and built by Theodore Dury (at shelfmark MS.1649.Z.03/58b) had not been thought to be adequate by Major John O'Brien, and Talbot Edwards was given the job of improving matters. The plan at shelfmark MS.1649.Z.03/58a shows the actual alterations which were carried out in 1710. This apparent quarrel is noted on several other plans, specifically from Stirling and Dumbarton. This sheet has the stamp of the Inspector General of Fortifications, rather than the stamp of the Board of Ordnance. It was handed down through his family from William Skinner, who was Chief Engineer for Scotland from 1746, and then of Great Britain, to his death in 1780, and was the architect of Fort George, Ardersier. It eventually came into the hands of his great-great-grandson Major Thomas Skinner (1804-1877), who wrote a provenance note on it when he passed it on to his own son, Lieutenant Monier Skinner, in 1872. Talbot Edwards married William Skinner's older sister, and brought him up after the death of their parents, and presumably passed these plans on to him.
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Scotland
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© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and The National Library of Scotland
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© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and The National Library of Scotland
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