J. Mordaunt Crook

Joseph Mordaunt Crook, (born 27 February 1937), generally known as J. Mordaunt Crook, is an English architectural historian and specialist on the Georgian and Victorian periods. He is an authority on the life and work of the Victorian architect William Burges, his biography published in 1981, and reissued in 2013, has been described as "one of the most substantial studies of any Victorian architect". Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, (1974), Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)

Selected works

The History of the King's Works volumes V-VI (1972-6) HMSO 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 John Carter and the Mind of the Gothic Revival (1985) Society of Antiquaries of London, 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 Regent's Park (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: Oxford University Press, 2008) Brooks's 1764-2014: The Story of a Whig Club (Edited with Charles Sebag-Montefiore) London: Paul Holberton, 2013