Joseph Mordaunt Crook, (born 27 February 1937), generally known as J. Mordaunt Crook, is an English

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and specialist on the

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and Victorian periods. He is an authority on the life and work of the Victorian architect

William Burges William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoc ...

, his biography published in 1981, and reissued in 2013, has been described as "one of the most substantial studies of any Victorian architect".

Positions and memberships held

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(1979–1980) * Professor of Architectural History,

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, (

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), (1981–1999) * President of the

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* Supernumerary Fellow of

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, Oxford * Member of the Supervisory Committee of the ''

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'' * Council Member of the

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* Council Member of the Victorian Society of Great Britain * Vice Chairman

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Fabric Commission

Honours

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(CBE) (2003) * Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, (1974),

* Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)

Selected works

* ''The History of the King's Works'' volumes V-VI (1972-6)

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* ''The British Museum: a Case-study in Architectural Politics'' (1972), Pelican * ''The Greek Revival: Neo-Classical Attitudes in British Architecture 1760-1870'' (1972/revised 1995) John Murray * ''The Reform Club'' (1973) article for and published by the

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* ''Strawberry Hill Revisited'' Reprints from Country Life of 7/14/21 June 1973 * ''William Burges and the High Victorian Dream'' (1981) John Murray; revised (2013) Frances Lincoln * ''The Strange Genius of William Burges'' (1981)

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* ''

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and the Victorian Vision of the Middle Ages'' (with C.A. Lennox-Boyd) (1984)

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* '' John Carter and the Mind of the Gothic Revival'' (1985)

, Occasional Papers * ''The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern'' (1989) John Murray * ''The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture'' (1999) John Murray * ''London's Arcadia: John Nash and the Planning of

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'' (date of publication and publisher unknown) * ''The Architect's Secret: Victorian Critics and the Image of Gravity'' (2003) John Murray * '' Brasenose: The Biography of an Oxford College'' (Oxford:

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, 2008) * ''

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1764-2014: The Story of a Whig Club'' (Edited with Charles Sebag-Montefiore) London: Paul Holberton, 2013

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crook, J. Mordaunt 1937 births Living people Fellows of the British Academy Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British architecture writers British architectural historians Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford) Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London