Richard Jupp (1728 – 17 April 1799) was an English architect and surveyor particularly noted for his work with the East India Company from 1768. He was was the eldest son of Richard Jupp (fl. c. 1700 – c. 1770) of Clerkenwell, master of the Carpenters’ Company in 1768, to whom he was apprenticed. He also spent some time studying abroad; the Architects’ Club, of which he was one of the fifteen founders in 1791, required its members to have studied architecture in Italy or France.^[2]

Jupp was appointed architect to Guy’s Hospital in 1759, and supervised construction of the west wing (1774–1777) and remodelled the main front (1774–1778). He also designed or remodelled at least four country houses,^[2] including Painshill House, Cobham, Surrey;^[3] Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire for Josias Dupré, governor of Madras (1778); and Park Farm Place, Eltham. The Old Bengal Warehouse in New Street, London was among the buildings Jupp designed for the East India company, along with the extensions to East India House in Leadenhall Street, completed after his death.^[2]

Personal life

Jupp died suddenly at his London home on 17 April 1799, leaving the life interest in his estate, valued at £35,000 – equivalent to £4.6 million as at 2024^[a]Calculated using the retail price index.^[4] – to his wife, Rebekah Allen, who survived him by about three years. He left instructions that he was to be buried very privately at midnight in Bunhill Fields, where he was interred six days later.^[2]