George Gwilt the younger

He was from the first very fully employed, one of his earliest important commissions being the large warehouses erected about 1801 for the West India Dock Company.

In 1820 he superintended the rebuilding of the tower and spire of Wren's church of St. Mary-le-Bow in the City of London, the upper part of which had to be taken down due to the decay of the iron cramps used to hold the stones together.

[2] When the lady chapel was restored at a cost of £3,000, raised by public subscription,[1] its threatened demolition having been averted,[3] Gwilt gave his services as an architect free.

[1] Gwilt died on 26 June 1856 at the age of eighty-one, and was buried, by authority of the secretary of state, in a vault of the choir of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

The third daughter Hannah [1807-1893] took a keen interest in astronomy and is the donor of the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.