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George Meikle Kemp (25 May 1795—6 March 1844) was a self-taught Scottish architect who designed and built the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland. The poorly educated son of a shepherd, but showing talents in woodworking as a child, he was apprenticed to a joiner and millwright. Disablingly shy and socially awkward, while able to memorise exact details of buildings and measure precise distances by eye, Kemp is considered to have been high on the autism spectrum.

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  • George Meikle Kemp (25 May 1795—6 March 1844) was a self-taught Scottish architect who designed and built the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland. The poorly educated son of a shepherd, but showing talents in woodworking as a child, he was apprenticed to a joiner and millwright. Kemp travelled and worked as a millwright for several years and, exercising a childhood fascination for Gothic architecture, took the opportunity to study many of the most important Gothic buildings in Scotland, England and France. As a result, he was said to have had a first-hand knowledge of Gothic architecture which was unrivalled in Scotland. Settling in Edinburgh, Kemp won a competition to design a monument to the Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott. He supervised its erection on Princes Street in the city but at the age of 48, before the building was finished, he drowned in the city's Union Canal. On its completion the monument was acclaimed and, despite his lack of formal training and with only the one building known to be for certain to his design, Kemp came to be revered as an architect. Disablingly shy and socially awkward, while able to memorise exact details of buildings and measure precise distances by eye, Kemp is considered to have been high on the autism spectrum. (en)
  • George Meikle Kemp (1795, Hillrigs near Biggar, Lanarkshire, Escocia - 6 de marzo de 1844, Edimburgo) fue un ebanista, dibujante técnico y arquitecto autodidacta de origen escocés. Su trabajo más famoso es el Scott Monument, emplazado en los Princes Street Gardens de Edimburgo. Se trata de un monumento de estilo victoriano levantado en honor del escritor escocés Sir Walter Scott, fallecido en 1832. Se da la paradoja que no pudo ver su obra terminada, dado que murió un año antes de su finalización ahogado en el Union Canal de Edimburgo, tras caer en él mientras regresaba a casa durante una tarde con densa niebla. Kemp también participó en el proyecto de la Catedral de Glasgow, si bien su diseño no fue escogido. (es)
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  • Portrait of Kemp by William Bonnar c1840 (en)
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  • George Meikle Kemp (1795, Hillrigs near Biggar, Lanarkshire, Escocia - 6 de marzo de 1844, Edimburgo) fue un ebanista, dibujante técnico y arquitecto autodidacta de origen escocés. Su trabajo más famoso es el Scott Monument, emplazado en los Princes Street Gardens de Edimburgo. Se trata de un monumento de estilo victoriano levantado en honor del escritor escocés Sir Walter Scott, fallecido en 1832. Se da la paradoja que no pudo ver su obra terminada, dado que murió un año antes de su finalización ahogado en el Union Canal de Edimburgo, tras caer en él mientras regresaba a casa durante una tarde con densa niebla. Kemp también participó en el proyecto de la Catedral de Glasgow, si bien su diseño no fue escogido. (es)
  • George Meikle Kemp (25 May 1795—6 March 1844) was a self-taught Scottish architect who designed and built the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland. The poorly educated son of a shepherd, but showing talents in woodworking as a child, he was apprenticed to a joiner and millwright. Disablingly shy and socially awkward, while able to memorise exact details of buildings and measure precise distances by eye, Kemp is considered to have been high on the autism spectrum. (en)
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