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STONE, JOHN, youngest son of Nicholas Stone, London, sculptor and master mason, and Mary, dau. of Hendrik de Keyser, architect and master mason, Amsterdam, Netherlands; b.; at school under Busby (Vertue, Notebooks, i, 93); “brought up at Oxford design’d for a clergyman” (ibid., 89), and therefore perhaps the John Stone who was Bible Clerk and Librarian, University Coll. Oxford 1644-8, when expelled by Parliamentary Visitors; subsequently a fugitive from Parliament, escaping to France; his father’s business as a sculptor and mason devolved on him after his brother Henry’s death in 1653, although he seems not to have been a sculptor himself; as an architect he designed Chesterton House, Warwickshire, in the late 1650s; went to Breda, Netherlands, at the Restoration to petition Charles II to appoint him to his father’s office of Master Mason to the Crown, but was appointed to the post of Master Mason at Windsor only; suffered incapacitating stroke when at Breda, and never fully recovered; became an inmate of St. Cross Hospital, Winchester; author, Enchiridion of Fortification, 1645 (published anonymously); buried St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 11 Sep 1667.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.