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Ordish
Ordish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Frederick Webster Ordish Frederick Webster Ordish FRIBA (1821 – 22 September 1885) was an English architect based in Leicestershire. Life He was a pupil of Henry Isaac Stevens. Initially based in London, he returned in Leicestershire in 1850 and worked in partnershi ... (1821–1885), English architect * Rowland Mason Ordish (1824–1886), English engineer * T. Fairman Ordish (1855–1924), British folklorist Other uses * Ordish-Lefeuvre system, a cable-stayed bridge design {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Webster Ordish
Frederick Webster Ordish FRIBA (1821 – 22 September 1885) was an English architect based in Leicestershire. Life He was a pupil of Henry Isaac Stevens. Initially based in London, he returned in Leicestershire in 1850 and worked in partnership with John Johnson and then from 1870 John Charles Traylen. He married Isabella Kilby, daughter of John Kilby of Queniborough on 20 December 1854 in Queniborough. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 18 December 1865. He died on 22 September 1885 at Syston railway station when alighting from a train before it had stopped. He fell between the carriages and was decapitated. Works *St Paul's Church, Camden Square, London ''(demolished)''. With John Johnson, 1847-9. * City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Bethnal Green, 1849–55. *St Luke's Church, Cheltenham, 1853–54. *Corn Exchange, Leicester. Upper floor and external staircase, 1855, which he later disowned. *St Mary Magdalen Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Mason Ordish
Rowland Mason Ordish (11 April 1824 – 1886) was an English engineer. He is most noted for his design of the Winter Garden, Dublin (1865), for his detailed work on the single-span roof of London's St Pancras railway station, undertaken with William Henry Barlow (1868) and the Albert Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London, completed in 1873. Biography Born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, Ordish was the son of a land agent and surveyor. He worked with Charles (later Sir Charles) Fox, who was responsible for the construction of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851. He subsequently supervised its re-erection in Sydenham, south London. His other projects included: *Farringdon Street Bridge, London *Holborn Viaduct, London (1863–69) *Derby market hall (1866) * Franz Joseph I Suspension Bridge, over the Vltava, Prague (1868, bombed 1941, demolished in 1947) *Cavenagh Bridge, Singapore (1869) *Esplanade Mansions, Mumbai, India (1869) *dome of Royal Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
