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HEMMING, Samuel

Born: fl. 1822

Architect


A sworn land surveyor in the Cape from 1824 to 1829 nominated personally by Colonel Trappes as supervising architect of Worcester Drostdy from 1822 to 1825, an extravagant and exorbitantly overspent project.

(Lewcock 1963:443)

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Drostdy - Now Museum: 1824. Worcester, Western Cape - Project Architect

References

Lewcock, Ronald. 1963. Early Nineteenth Century Architecture in South Africa : a study of the interaction of two cultures, 1795-1837. Cape Town: AA Balkema. pp 257, 284, 443

Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pp 77, 78