#5006 Sir John Soane's House in Lincoln's Inn Fields Sir John Soane, born 1753 in Goring Berkshire, emerged as one of Britain’s most celebrated architects. Son of a bricklayer, no doubt providing familial foundations for his soaring career, he became a ‘pupil’ of leading architect George Dance the Younger (Mansion House, Newgate Gaol) and later of Henry Holland (Marine, later Brighton, Pavilion). Enjoying such auspicious direction, he was destined to shine and shine he did, t