Details of Sculptor

Surname

Gilbert

Alternative Surname

First Name

John and Henry, of Stamford and Cambridge

Initial of Surname

G

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

1802-49

Year of Death

Biographical Details

The Gilbert family were masons in Lincolnshire in the 18th century. John Gilbert (1774-1839) was at Stamford by 1802, when his daughter was christened at St Martin’s. In 1807 he advertised that he had moved from Deeping St James and had worked for George Sparrow. He set up his own establishment in Beast Market [Broad Street] as a marble mason, making monuments and chimneypieces. By 1825 he was in Cambridge, where he died in Brunswick Place. He was succeeded in the business by his son, Henry Gilbert, who carved the later tablets, but Gunnis notes that ‘neither of them produced any outstanding work’.
Literary References: Stamford Mercury, 9 Oct 1807, 16 Aug 1822, 1 March 1839; Cambridge Chronicle, 1 July 1825; Gunnis 1968, 174
Archival References: Stamford Hall Books; RG/JP, 4, 598v; JP, Misc Corr