Family and Education
bap. 19 July 1573, o.s. of Inigo Jones of St. Benet Paul’s Wharf, London, clothworker. educ. ?appr. joiner; travelled abroad (Italy) c.1600; ?embassy, Denmark 1603. unm. suc. fa. 1597. J. Summerson, ‘Prince Henry’s Works’, Hist. of King’s Works ed. H.M. Colvin, iii. 121-3; PROB 11/89, f. 275v. bur. 26 June 1652. Vertue Notebooks i (Walpole Soc. xviii), 105. sig. Inigo Jones.
Offices Held

Surveyor of works, Prince Henry’s Household 1611–12, Summerson, ‘Prince Henry’, 123. surveyor, King’s Works 1615–43, C66/1998/2; H.M. Colvin, Biog. Dict. of Brit. Architects (3rd edn.), 556–7. Queen’s Works from 1631, J. Summerson, ‘Surveyorship of Inigo Jones’, King’s Works, iii. 139. St. Paul’s cathedral, 1633–1642; CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 528; G. Higgott, ‘The Fabric to 1670’, St. Paul’s: the Cathedral Church of London ed. D. Keene, A. Burns and A. Saint, 182. commr. fraudulent timber imports, 1638. CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 363.

Commr. new buildings, London 1618-at least 1640, C66/2165; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 604. L. Inn Fields, Mdx. from 1618, T. Rymer, Foedera, vii. pt. 3, p. 83. sewers, Mdx. 1619, 1627, 1637–8, C181/2, f. 347v; 181/3, f. 213v; 181/5, ff. 81, 114v. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral, from 1620; C66/2221. freeman, Southampton, Hants 1623; HMC 11th Rep. iii. 24. commr. annoyances, Mdx. 1624–5, Rymer, vii. pt. 4, p. 97; C181/3, f. 157. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1626 – at least39, Mdx. 1638, C181/3, f. 198v; 181/5, ff. 114, 155. abuses at Windsor Castle, Berks. 1629; W.H. St. John Hope, Windsor Castle, i. 295. j.p. Mdx. 1630 – at least40, Westminster 1630-at least 1640; C231/5, p. 32; C66/2859. commr. brickmakers’ abuses, London 1638, bricklayers 1638. C181/5, ff. 117v, 119.

Main residence: Scotland Yard, Westminster.
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Commons 1604-1629
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JONES, Inigo (1573-1652)

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