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J. Crook


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Professor Joseph Mordaunt Crook, CBE, FBA, FSA, D.Phil, MA, (b.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.

Positions and memberships held

  • Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Oxford (1979–1980)
  • Professor of Architectural History, Royal Holloway College, (University of London), (1981–1999)
  • Fellow of the British Academy
  • President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
  • Supernumerary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford
  • Member of the Supervisory Committee of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • Council Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London
  • Council Member of the Victorian Society of Great Britain
  • Vice Chairman Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission

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