J. Mordaunt Crook

Joseph Mordaunt Crook, , 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".

Positions and memberships held

Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Oxford
Professor of Architectural History, Royal Holloway College,,
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

Honours

Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion,, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Fellow of the British Academy

Selected works

The History of the King's Works volumes V-VI HMSOThe British Museum: a Case-study in Architectural Politics, PelicanThe Greek Revival: Neo-Classical Attitudes in British Architecture 1760-1870 John MurrayThe Reform Club article for and published by the Reform ClubStrawberry Hill Revisited Reprints from Country Life of 7/14/21 June 1973William Burges and the High Victorian Dream John Murray; revised Frances LincolnThe Strange Genius of William Burges National Museum of WalesAxel Haig and the Victorian Vision of the Middle Ages George Allen & UnwinJohn Carter and the Mind of the Gothic Revival Society of Antiquaries of London, Occasional PapersThe Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern John MurrayThe Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture John MurrayLondon's Arcadia: John Nash and the Planning of Regent's Park The Architect's Secret: Victorian Critics and the Image of Gravity John MurrayBrasenose: The Biography of an Oxford College Brooks's 1764-2014: The Story of a Whig Club London: Paul Holberton, 2013