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From 1784 Soane took a new pupil on roughly ever other year, these were :: J. Adams, George Bailey, George Basevi, S. Burchell, H. Burgess, J. Buxton, Robert Dennis Chantrell, Thomas Chawner, F. Copland, E. Davis, E. Foxall, J. H.

Good, Thomas Jeans, David Laing, C. Malton, John McDonnell, A. P.

Mee, Frederick Meyer, David Mocatta, Henry Parke, C. E.

Papendick, David Richardson, W. E.

Rolfe, John Sanders his first pupil taken on 1 September 1784, H. H.

Seward, Thomas Sword, B. J.

Storace, Charles Tyrrell and Thomas Williams.

His most famous and successful pupil was Sir Robert Smirke, though thanks to a personality clash with Soane, Smirke stayed less than a year.