William Scamp

After working on the reconstruction of Windsor Castle to designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, he was employed by the Admiralty from 1838 to his retirement in 1867.

During his stay in Malta, he oversaw the construction of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, making significant alterations to the building in the process.

Queen Adelaide, who had commissioned the cathedral, presented Scamp with a silver candelabrum as a gratitude for his work upon his return to England.

By 1860, Scamp was credited with major works at the Admiralty establishments in the colonies of Malta, Gibraltar and Bermuda as well as naval bases in Britain itself, such as Deptford, Woolwich, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Pembroke.

He retired in 1867, but later designed a land reclamation project for Morecambe Bay and made plans for improving Lancaster Harbour.

The city's residents were against this plan and protested to the Governor, but works proceeded nonetheless,[6] beginning on 28 June 1844 with the dock being opened on 5 September 1848.

[3] The Royal Naval Bakery in Birgu had been designed by Brandreth, but Scamp made substantial modifications to the plans and the building was constructed on the site of a former galley arsenal between 1842 and 1845.

He made a number of substantial changes to the cathedral's original plans in the process, with his most notable contribution being the design of the bell tower and shifting its position to make it a free-standing structure.

Scamp also designed the cathedral's interior, and he seems to have been inspired by Nicholas Hawksmoor's St Mary Woolnoth church in London.

[4] Scamp returned to Malta a number of times later on in his career, assisting in extending the Grand Harbour to Il-Menqa in 1860.