[Marjie Bloy, Senior Research Fellow, National University of
Singapore has added the following from an early edition of the
DNB] Joseph John Scoles the architect, was born in London on 27
June 1798. He was the son of Matthew Scoles, a joiner, and
Elizabeth Sparling. His parents were Roman catholics. Educated
at the Roman catholic school at Baddesley Green, Joseph was
apprenticed in 1812 for seven years to his kinsman, Joseph
Ireland, an architect largely employed by Dr. John Milner
(1752-1826), the Roman Catholic bishop. During his
apprenticeship, John Carter (1748-1817), through Milner's
influence, revised his detailed drawings, and he thus had his
attention directed at an early period to mediæval ecclesiastical
art. Ireland, as was customary at that period, frequently acted
as contractor as well as designer, and from 1816 to 1819 Scoles
was resident at Hassop Hall, Bakewell, and in Leicester,
superintending works for Ireland. In 1822 Scoles left England in
company with Joseph Bonomi the younger for further