The works which Essex acknowledged are the following: 1. ‘Proposals for Engraving and Printing a Plan of an intended Addition to Corpus Christi College,Cambridge,’ 20 Sept. 1748. 2. Advertisement beginning ‘Whereas Mr. Masters,’ 4 Oct. 1748. 3. ‘Mr. James Essex's Letter to his Subscribers to the Plan,’ &c., 20 Feb. 1748-9. 4. ‘Proposals for Engraving Views, Plans, and Sections of King's College Chapel,’ 1 Oct. 1756 (Gough, Brit. Top. i. 237). 5. ‘Letter to Dr. Ducarel, containing observations on Canterbury Cathedral,’ 1 Feb. 1768 (Nichols, Bibl. Top. Brit. i. 470). 6. ‘Plan of the original Cathedral Church of Ely, with an account of the several Alterations and Additions’ (Bentham, Ely, 1812, addenda, pp. 1-8). 7. ‘Account of the Old Conventual Church at Ely’ (ib. pp. 9, 10). 8. ‘Remarks on the Antiquity and the different Modes of Brick and Stone Buildings in England’ (Archæologia, iv. 73). 9. ‘Observations on Lincoln Cathedral’ (ib. iv. 149). 10. ‘Observations on the Origin and Antiquity of Round Churches, and of the Round Church at Cambridge in particular’(ib. vi. 163). 11. ‘Observations on Croyland Abbey and Bridge’ (Nichols, Bibl. Top. Brit. No. xxii.) 12. ‘Description and Plan of the Ancient Timber Bridge at Rochester’ (Archæologia, vii. 395). 13. ‘Description and Plan of Denny Abbey, Cambs.’ (Lysons, Cambridgeshire, pp. 272-4). Besides these, his description of the old chapel of Sidney Sussex College, and his ‘Journal of a Tour through part of Flanders and France in August 1773,’ have been printed since his death in the ‘Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge,’ by the Rev. R. Willis and J. W. Clark, and the Cambr. Antiq. Soc. Octavo Publ. No. xxiv. respectively.
The name of Essex is also connected with six engraved designs: 1. A birdseye view of the quadrangle of King's College, Cambridge, to explain a scheme for laying out the court and gardens, on the supposition that the three buildings designed by Gibbs were completed. It is lettered: ‘This east prospect of King's College in Cambridge, as intended to be finish'd, is humbly inscrib'd to the worshipful Andrew Snape, D.D., Provost . . .by ... Jam. Essex, junr, Jams Gibbs, Arch. Jams Essex junr Delin., 1741. P. Fourdrinier Sculp.’ 2. A view of Burrough's design for a new court at Trinity Hall, lettered: ‘Aulæ Sanctæ Trinitatis Cantab: ab Occidente. The West Front of Trinity Hall in Cambridge. Jac. Burrough Arch. 1743. Jac. Essex, junr, delineavit, W. H. Toms Sculp.’ 3. ‘The Plan and Elevation of an intended Addition to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. Designed by James Essex, junior. Jacs Essex, junr Delineavit, 1748. W.H.Toms Sculp.’ 4. ‘A Design for the Publick Library at Cambridge, made by the late Sr James Burrough in the Year 1752.’ 5. ‘Elevation of the New Front design'd for Emanuel College, Cambridge. Jac. Essex desigt et del. P. S. Lamborn sculp.’ 6. ‘The West Prospect of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Jacs Essex desigt et delt 1773. Major sculpt.’
[Life of Essex in Introduction to his Journal of a Tour through part of Flanders and France in August 1773 (Cambr. Antiq. Soc. Octavo Publ. No. xxiv.); R. Willis and J. W. Clark's Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, iii. 540-6; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, iv. 413; Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 6761-73, 6776; MSS. Cole, Addit. MSS. 5842, 5845, 5868; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. i. 687, vi. 625, viii. 578, 607; Nichols's Illustr. vi. 284-310; Archæologia, xvi. 306; Gough's Camden, ed. 1789, i. 329; E. J. Willson's Remarks on Modern Gothic Architecture, prefixed to Pugin's Specimens, pp. xvi, xvii; Bentham's Ely, ed. 1812, p. 284; Rev. D. J. Stewart's Architectural Hist. of Ely Cathedral, pp. 74, 125-7; Rev. E. Venables's Architectural Hist. of Lincoln Cathedral, Archæol. Journ. xl. 159-92, 377-418.]
ESSEX, TIMOTHY (1765?–1847), composer, born in or about 1765 at Coventry, Warwickshire, was the son of Timothy Essex of that town. He commenced playing on the flute and violin at thirteen years of age for his own amusement, but the rapid progress which he made induced his father to let him study music as a profession. In 1786 he established himself as a teacher of the pianoforte, organ, and flute. In order to better his position he matriculated at Oxford as a member of Magdalen Hall 10 Dec. 1806, and took the degree of bachelor of music on the following 17 Dec. He proceeded doctor of music 2 Dec. 1812 (Foster, Alumni Oxon.; Oxford Graduates, 1851, p. 215). Essex was an able teacher, and obtained some popularity as a composer. His ‘Musical Academy’ was at 38 Hill Street, Berkeley Square; he was also organist, composer to, and director of the choir of St. George's Chapel, Albemarle Street. Among his best works are: 1. ‘Eight English Canzonetts for a Single Voice’ (1800). 2. ‘A Grand Military Sonata for the Pianoforte, with an accompaniment ad libitum for a violin’ (1800). 3. ‘Six Duets for Flutes or Violins’ (1801?). 4. ‘Eight Lessons and Four Sonatinas on a Peculiar Plan, intended to establish a proper method of fingering on the pianoforte’ (1802). 5. ‘Six Canzonets, the words from the poems of the late Mrs. Robinson’ (1804). 6. ‘Introduction and Fugue for the Organ’ (1812). 7. ‘Harmonia
