Influential church architect and furnisher of the Gothic Revival. John Ninian Comper was born in Aberdeen in 1864, the son of John Comper, who was an adherent of the Oxford Movement and ordained into the Scottish Episcopal Church. This Anglo-Catholic influence was influential, and is clear in Comper's adherence to Gothic. He worked in the offices of C.E. Kempe and Bodley and Garner before establishing his own practice in the late 1880s, initially with William Bucknall. Almost all of his work was ecclesiastical, with the notable exception of the Welsh National War Memorial in Cardiff.
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