James Whitton

His most notable project was the design and layout of Skegness as a holiday resort for Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough.

[6] His business seems to have taken off after 1878 when he started supervising of the construction work required for the new resort of Skegness and during the following years he was occupied by the design and contraction of many of the new buildings.

Apart from working in Lincoln and Skegness, he is also known to have been the architect for the parsonage at Stallingborough in Lincolnshire and a farmhouse and farm cottages in Hanslope in Buckinghamshire.

His buildings were in a High Victorian style, sometimes using decorative Minton tiles on the frontages of the houses he designed.

In 1876 Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough to commissioned George Booth Walker, a surveyor from Wainfleet to produce an initial plan for the resort.