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Thomas Jeckyll (1827 Wymondham, Norfolk - 1881 Norwich) (baptised on 20 June 1827) was an English architect who excelled in the creation of metalwork and furniture strongly influenced by Japanese design, and is best known for his planning in 1876 of the ‘Peacock Room’ at 49 Princes Gate, London. He became ill in 1877 and later died at St Andrew's Hospital, Norwich.
Thomas Jeckyll was a son of George Jeckell, a Nonconformist clerk who had taken holy orders and was married to Maria Ann Balduck. Thomas later changed his surname to 'Jeckyll.' His brother Henry was a brass founder in Dudley.
He is regarded as an important figure in the Aesthetic Movement. His ecclesiastical architecture was often controversial, for example the remarkable polychrome pointed Methodist Church in Holt, Norfolk (1862–3), and the plain Great Hautbois Holy Trinity Church (1864), both in Norfolk.
Jeckyll started his career as a Gothic Revival architect in 1850 in Wymondham, planning rectories and schools, designing and restoring historic homes, Gothic churches, such as at Sculthorpe, and constructing and improving farmhouses and agricultural buildings. By 1858 he was working in Norwich and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Shortly thereafter he settled in London, meeting artists such as Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Whistler.
Jeckyll pioneered the use of Anglo-Japanese style furnishings. In 1859 he started associating with the Norwich iron works firm of Barnard, Bishop & Barnards, a relationship which endured until 1881. His designs formed part of their pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1862, and he designed the firm's cast- and wrought-iron pavilion for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In the 1870s he designed interiors for clients such as Alexander Constantine Ionides and Frederick Richards Leyland - his original scheme for Leyland's dining room was reworked by James Whistler into the 'Peacock Room'. Whistler described Jeckyll in 1877 as 'one of my intimate comrades'.
His early death at fifty-four was brought about by a mental breakdown. He became ill in 1877 and died in Norwich Asylum in 1881
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- https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Jeck_T&initial=J
- https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100018831
- https://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/exhibitions/44/thomas-jeckyll