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Robert Adams (architect)

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None of Robert Adams's architectural works are known to have survived, but some of his plans and engravings are still extant, such as a large 1588 plan of Middleburgh and, from the same year, a small parchment roll, drawn with pen, entitled "Thamesis Descriptio", which shows lines drawn across the
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To the distinguished Robert Adams, supervisor of the royal works, most skilled at architecture. Died 1595. Simon Basil, his successor at the royal works, put up this monument here 1601.
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For the similarly named 18th-century Scottish architect (1728–1792), see
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Robert Adams died in his 55th year and was buried in the church at
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The English engage the Spanish fleet near Plymouth on 31 July 1588
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and the various ranges of guns at different points from
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Robert Adam
references
inline citations
improve
introducing
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English
architect
engraver
surveyor
Queen Elizabeth
Clement Adams
River Thames
Tilbury Fort
London
Spanish Armada
Augustine Ryther

Howard of Effingham
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom
Armada Tapestries
Greenwich
Simon Basil
Long, George
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/127
UK public library membership
Categories
1540 births

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