he unsuccessfully submitted a design to the competition for the new Blackfriars Bridge. Samuel Johnson lobbied on his behalf, sending three letters in his support to the Daily Gazetteer, but plans by Robert Mylne were preferred. He was particularly associated with projects in Oxford, including Magdalen Bridge (1772–90), the city's workhouse (1772–73) and the Covered Market (1774), and with bridges across the River Severn including the "English Bridge", in his native Shrewsbury (1769), and others at Atcham (1769–71), Llandrinio (1769-1775) and Worcester (1781) He was one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy in 1768, Samuel Wale, the academy's first professor of perspective had at one time been his assistant. An anonymous publication of 1742 entitled The Art of Architecture: A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry has been generally attributed to Gwynn. He died in Shrewsbury in 1786. Notes References Sources External links John Gwynn (1713–1786), Architect portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, London 1713 births 1786 deaths Architects from Shrewsbury British bridge engineers 18th-century English architects Royal Academicians English civil engineers