William Fuller Pocock Explained

William Fuller Pocock should not be confused with William Innes Pocock.

William Fuller Pocock
Birth Date:1779
Birth Place:London
Death Date:29 October 1849
Death Place:London
Nationality:English
Occupation:Architect

William Fuller Pocock (1779 – 29 October 1849) was an English architect.

Biography

Pocock was the son of a builder. He was born in 1779 in the city of London. He was apprenticed to his father, and then entered the office of C. Beazley. His first essays in art were landscape-paintings; but at the age of twenty he had begun to work as an architect. From 1799 to 1827 he exhibited designs of minor works at the Royal Academy, the most ambitious of which was a ‘Design for a Temple of Fame.’ In 1820–2 he designed the hall of the Leathersellers' Company in St. Helen's Place, and in 1827 the priory at Hornsey. The headquarters of the London militia, Bunhill Row, were designed by him; the Wesleyan Centenary Hall in Bishopsgate Street Within (1840); Christ Church, Virginia Water; and a great number of smaller works. Pocock died on 29 October 1849 in Trevor Terrace, Knightsbridge, London.

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His son William Willmer Pocock was also an architwct.