Roger Morris (architect)

Marble Hill House, with Lord Pembroke, 1724–29: prototype of many English villas and colonial mansions

Roger Morris (19 April 1695 – 31 January 1749)[1] was an English architect whose connection with Colen Campbell[2] brought him to the attention of Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, with whom Morris collaborated on a long series of projects.

  1. ^ Dates, and much of the other information in this article, are from Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840, 3rd ed. (Yale University Press) 1995, s.v. "Roger Morris".
  2. ^ "He was Campbell's assistant through the 1720s," John Harris remarked, noting Morris's drawing of Campbell's design for Pembroke House, Whitehall, of 1723, in the Wilton archives (Harris, "An English Neo-Palladian Episode and Its Connections with Visentini in Venice" Architectural History 27 ["Design and Practice in British Architecture: Studies in Architectural History Presented to Howard Colvin", 1984:231–240] p. 232).