Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . eseats of the Earl of Wemyss and March. The house stands nearto the Firth of Forth, with a west-north-west aspect, and command-ing an extensive view of the sea. Formerly, we are told, thepresent fine estate was merely a rabbit warren, where the builder,Francis Charteris-Wemyss, the sixth Earl, was accustomed to playgolf. The sixth Earl was the younger brother of David, LordElcho, the nobleman who assisted Charles Stuart in the rising of1745, and subsequently tied to France after the Ba
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . eseats of the Earl of Wemyss and March. The house stands nearto the Firth of Forth, with a west-north-west aspect, and command-ing an extensive view of the sea. Formerly, we are told, thepresent fine estate was merely a rabbit warren, where the builder,Francis Charteris-Wemyss, the sixth Earl, was accustomed to playgolf. The sixth Earl was the younger brother of David, LordElcho, the nobleman who assisted Charles Stuart in the rising of1745, and subsequently tied to France after the Battle of date of the completion of the original building is recorded uponthe entablature in the following inscription : Fra. Charteris-Wemyss, Earl of Wemyss, 1800. From this date it might besurmised that the house was not designed by Robert Adam, yetupon the eight plates of this building, which George Richardsoninserted in the first volume of the New Vitruvius Britannicus,the words, Robert Adam Arch, were inscribed. Most of theoriginal drawings prepared for the house are now preserved in the. 38 298 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM charter room, in a box labelled: Plans lor the New modern work at Gosford was designed by the late Mr WilliamYoung, under the direction of the late Earl of Wemyss (Fig. 223).In the year 1791, at the inaugural meeting, Robert Adam waselected one of the foundation Members of the Architects Club,the first society of architects to be established in this members of the club used to meet at the Thatched HouseTavern in St Jamess Street, a building that stood until about 1845on the site of the present Conservative Club. The Minutes ofthe inaugural meeting of the society were recorded as follows :— Thatched House Tavern,20* October — James Wyatt. George Dance. Henry Holland. Samuel Pepys Cockerel]. It was proposed and agreed to establish a Club, to be calledthe Architects Club, to meet at the Thatc
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