Henry Lobb

Henry Lobb (died 1706) was an English Carpenter, woodcarver,Joan West builder and architectInscription on ledger stone, St Mary's Church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk (an allowable primary source) who worked for clients including William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire and at Devonshire House in Piccadilly, London, and James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde at St James's Square, London.Hannah Waugh, William Talman in London: The Remodelling of Berkeley House, Journal of the Georgian Group, Vol.18, 2010, pp.179-80
'St. James's Square: Nos 9, 10 & 11', in Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster, Part 1, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1960), pp. 118-134 Through his son's advantageous marriage to a great heiress his descendants became wealthy and socially prominent.
==Career==
Henry Lobb was born at Saltash in CornwallInscription on ledger stone, St Mary's Church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk (an allowable primary source) one of the three sons of Christoper Lobb of Saltash, "possibly with some claim to Gentry|gentle birth".Joan West His brothers were Joel and William, who both also had notable careers as woodworkers.Joan West, The Lobb brothers, woodcarvers to the aristocracy, Truro, Cornwall, 1991 Together with his brother William Lobb he owned an estate in Kensington Square, London, now numbers 36,37,38, near the newly built Kensington Palace, on which were developed large houses for the gentry and nobility.'Kensington Square and environs: Individual houses (north side)', in Survey of London: Volume 42, Kensington Square To Earl's Court, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1986), pp. 40-46 Henry Lobb completed various Panelling|wainscotting work for the 1st Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire and at Berkeley House in Piccadilly (later re-named Devonshire House).Hannah Waugh, William Talman in London: The Remodelling of Berkeley House, Journal of the Georgian Group, Vol.18, 2010, pp.179-80
 He also worked 1685-6 as a joiner on the rectory of St James's Church, Piccadillyhttps://www.sjp.org.uk/the-church-building/ and in 1697 on Ormonde House in St James's Square, the Townhouse (Great Britain)|townhouse of the 2nd Duke of Ormonde (now nos 9,10,11, St James's Square).'St. James's Square: Nos 9, 10 & 11', in Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster, Part 1, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1960), pp. 118-134 
He lived on PiccadillyInscription on ledger stone, St Mary's Church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk (an allowable primary source) in Westminster, London, and moved in his retirementInscription on ledger stone, St Mary's Church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk (an allowable primary source) to Great Cressingham, Norfolk, where in the parish church of St Mary his ledger stone survives before the communion rail, inscribed in Latin as follows:Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Greenhoe: Great-Cressingham', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 94-107 </br>
Supra et Infra, quod supra anima est, quod infra Corpus Henrici Lobb, qui natus est Saltash in Comitatu Cornwall, diu vixit in Piccadilly Westminster, non mediocris famæ architecta, hic autem recessum quærens, ipse etiam a vita recessit, die Septembris 25 1706 ("Above and below: what is above is the soul, what is below is the body, of Henry Lobb, who was born at Saltash in the County of Cornwall, lived long in Piccadilly in Westminster, not of middling fame in architecture, however here seeking retirement, he himself retired from life on the 25th day of September 1706").
==Descendants==
File:British (English) School - Elizabeth Chute (d.1725), Later Mrs Thomas Lobb, as a Young Girl - 719367 - National Trust.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Chute (d.1725), Later Mrs Thomas Lobb, as a Young Girl, National Trust, at The Vyne
He married Sarah Rowell (1669-1748), whose mural monument survives in Great Cressingham Church. His sonJoan West, The Lobb brothers, woodcarvers to the aristocracy, Truro, Cornwall, 1991 "the son of one of them became master of just such a stately home, when he married the heiress of the Chute family of the Vyne, in Hampshire."The Family Of Brice and Cathy Alvord, By Brice Alvord, p.150 was Thomas Lobb (1692-1764) of Great Cressingham, Norfolk, who married a lady who would turn out to be great heiress, namely Elizabeth Chute (d.1725), daughter and eventual heiress (in her issue) of Thomas Chute (1660-1702) of Pickenham Hall in Norfolk, second son of Chaloner Chute (died 1666)|Chaloner Chute II (1632-1666), History of Parliament Online - Chaloner Chute of The Vyne in Hampshire, MP for Devizes, by his wife Catherine Lennard, a daughter of Baron Dacre|Richard Lennard, 13th Baron Dacre. Elizabeth Chute's mural monument survives in Great Cressingham Church, displaying the arms of Lobb impaling Chute.Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol.1, 1885, p.73 
Elizabeth Chute was also the heiress (in her issue) of her first cousin John Chute (d.1776) of The Vyne, a palatial residence in Hampshire. It was her son Thomas Lobb Chute (1721-1790) who inherited through her those two estates, and adopted the additional surname of Chute as a condition of his inheritance of The Vyne.Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1, 1847, p.220 The children of Thomas Lobb Chute (1721-1790) included William Chute (d.1824), MP for Hampshire, and his sisters Anne and Mary,Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1, 1847, p.220 who were all childhood friends of the author Jane Austen, a frequent visitor at The Vyne.Willoughby, Rupert, Sherborne St John and the Vyne in the Time of Jane Austen: With an Account of Their Earlier History
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