Early in 1780 Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol wrote to Soane offering him various architectural commissions, Soane decided to return to England and began to organise his return journey.

On 13 October Mrs Soane wrote ' Those are George's doing.

Sir John Soane's Museum was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane.

Once he had moved into No. 13, Soane rented out his former home at No. 12 ( on his death it was left to the nation along with No. 13, the intention being that the rental income would fund the running of the Museum ).

Soane began his training as an architect age 15 under George Dance the Younger and joining the architect at his home and office in the City of London at the corner of Moorfields and Chiswell Street.

Soane, a non-swimmer, was going to be with the party but decided to stay home and work on his design for a Triumphal Bridge.

Also in 1781 Philip Yorke gave Soane commissions, at his home Hamels Park in Hertfordshire, he designed a new entrance gate and lodges, followed by a new dairy and alterations to the house, and in London alterations and redecoration of 63 New Cavendish Street.

Strand Block, Somerset House, designed by William Chambers, home to the Royal Academy 1780 – 1837, Soane delivered all his lectures here

Soane over the course of his career built up an extensive library of 7, 783 volumes, this is still housed in the library he designed in his home now museum of 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

After a spell as a patent agents, Lindsey House has become home to the leading civil liberties barristers ' chambers, Garden Court Chambers, together with the neighbouring building at 57-58, which includes some features designed by Sir John Soane, including a geometric staircase.

Soane stated that he was left so little because ' his general misconduct and constant opposition to my wishes evinced in the general tenor of his life '.

The Green and Poor's Land is the area of open land now occupied by Bethnal Green Library, the V & A Museum of Childhood and St John's Church, designed by John Soane.

St. Peter's Church, Walworth, built circa 1825, is an excellent example of the neo-classical style of church built by Sir John Soane.

His huge sarcophagus, carved in one piece and intricately decorated on every surface ( including the goddess Nut on the interior base ), is in Sir John Soane's Museum, in London, England ; Soane bought it for exhibition in his open collection in 1824, when the British Museum refused to pay the £ 2, 000 demanded.

The Soane Museum is now a national centre for the study of architecture.

Francis Leggatt Chantrey carved a white marble bust of Soane that is still in the museum, in the ' Dome ' overlooking the Seti sarcophagus.

Thomas Lawrence painted a three quarter length portrait of Soane, it is hung over the Dining Room fireplace in the museum.

* The Dulwich Picture Gallery designed by Soane in 1811 is the archetype for modern art galleries from the Sainsbury Wing at London's National Gallery to the new Getty Center in California.

* Extension of the Bank to the north-west, the exterior wall was extended around the junction of Lothbury and Princes Street, forming the ' Tivoli Corner ' which is based on the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli that Soane had visited and much admired, halfway down Princes street he created the Doric Vestibule as a minor entrance to the building and within two new courtyards that were surrounded by the rooms he built in 1790 and new rooms including printing offices for banknotes, the £ 5 Note Office and new offices for the Accountants, the Bullion Office off the Lothbury Court ( 1800 – 1808 ).

As far as is known it is not related to an official commission and was merely a design exercise by Soane, indeed the various drawings he produced date over several years, he first produced a design for a Royal Palace while in Rome in 1779.

In 1816 Soane designed the tomb above the vault his wife was buried in it is built from Carrara marble and Portland Stone.

Inside the house the central corridor is barrel vaulted and leads to a drawing room whose groin vault is reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane ( 1753-1837 ).

A year later Clovio may have followed Marino when the latter was appointed as a papal legate to Perugia, where Clovio is thought to have worked on illustrations for the Soane Manuscript written by Marino Grimani around that time.

This work is now in the Sir John Soane Museum in London.

* 1817 – Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is designed by Sir John Soane as the first purpose-built art gallery.

* The Bank of England in London, designed by Sir John Soane, is completed.

Through such connections, he came to be appointed as architect to the Bank of England until his death ( caused by catching a chill at his friend Asgill's funeral in September 1788, he is buried in Poets ' Corner, Westminster Abbey ) when he was succeeded by Sir John Soane.

Joseph Michael Gandy completed for Sir John Soane in 1832 an atmospheric watercolor of the architect's vast Bank of England rotunda as a picturesquely overgrown ruin, that is an icon of Romanticism.

He commissioned Sir John Soane, one of the most pre-eminent 18th century architects, to extend and refurbish the house in a more lavish and sumptuous manner, and the outside of the house as it appears today is largely due to his money and Soane's vision ( although the clock tower was added at a later date ).

Piercefield House is a largely ruined neo-classical country house designed by Sir John Soane, located near Chepstow in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.

Tyringham Hall, ( TEER-ing-um ) is a green-domed building originally designed by Sir John Soane in 1792.

The architect Sir John Soane designed a tomb for his wife and himself in the churchyard, which is now Grade I listed.

Soane was taken ill on 27 December 1813 and was incapacitated until 28 March 1814, when he underwent an operation by Astley Cooper on his bladder to remove a fistula.

A number of British architects in the second half of the century took up the expressive challenge of the Doric from their aristocratic patrons, including Joseph Bonomi and John Soane, but it was to remain the private enthusiasm of connoisseurs up to the first decade of the 19th century.

The acquisition of No. 14 enabled the Museum, under its new Director, Tim Knox, to embark on ' Opening up the Soane ', an ambitious project to complete the restoration of the Museum's historic spaces, funded by the Monument Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Soane Foundation in New York and other private trusts.

Since 2005 the Director of the Museum has been Tim Knox, formerly Head Curator of the National Trust, under whose leadership the Museum has embarked on the ambitious ' Opening up the Soane ' project combining the restoration of Nos 12 and 13, including a number of lost historic features, with improved visitor and conservation facilities.

The ' Opening up the Soane ' project also includes a programme of audience development, a new website and on-line catalogues of the collections.

George Soane realising that if the museum was set up he would lose his inheritance, persuaded William Cobbett to try and stop the bill, but failed.

So Soane set up a trust fund of £ 10, 000 to support the family.

The eminent English architect John Soane, who designed the new Bank of England in 1788, offered to draw up plans in 1809.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

A Texan wrote to a male companion at home: `` what has become of Halda and Laura??

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Jarry and classmate Henri Morin wrote a play they called Les Polonais and performed it with marionettes in the home of one of their friends.

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

Charlotte wrote to her father who took Anne home where she remained while she recovered.

Housman wrote most of them while living in Highgate, London, before ever visiting that part of Shropshire ( about thirty miles from his home ), which he presented in an idealised pastoral light, as his ' land of lost content '.

Hill Top, Near Sawrey – Potter's former home, now owned by the National Trust and preserved as it was when she lived and wrote her stories there.

In his article The Old Man and the Daiquiri, Wayne Curtis tells us how Hemingway ’ s “ home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum .” Hemingway wrote in Islands in the Stream “… this frozen daiquirí, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots .”

One young Belgian officer wrote home: " Happily Gongo's men ate them up a few hours.

August Heinrich Hoffmann ( who called himself Hoffmann von Fallersleben after his home town to distinguish himself from others with the same common name of " Hoffmann ") wrote the text in 1841 on vacation on the North Sea island Heligoland, then a possession of the United Kingdom.

" While the things that Thompson wrote about are basically true, he used previously mentioned satirical devices to drive his points home.

Although his home is not identified, scholars conclude that Habakkuk lived in Jerusalem at the time he wrote his prophecy.

After spending some time with Jay discussing the treaty, Adams wrote home to his father, in support of the emerging treaty because he thought America should stay out of European affairs.

Many actresses wrote later of how Goebbels had tried to lure them to his home.

The presence of family compensated Reynolds for the absence of a wife ; he wrote on one occasion to his friend Bennet Langton, that both his sister and niece were away from home " so that I am quite a bachelor.

After returning home he went on a lecture circuit and wrote The People of the Polar North ( 1908 ), a combination travel journal and scholarly account of Inuit folklore.

Cassatt's friend Eliza Haldeman wrote home that artists " are leaving the Academy style and each seeking a new way, consequently just now everything is Chaos ".

In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.

Webster's New Haven home, where he wrote An American Dictionary of the English Language.