J. Mordaunt Crook

Professor Joe Mordaunt Crook (known as J. Mordaunt Crook), CBE, MA, D.Phil, FBA, is an English architectural historian and specialist on the Georgian and Victorian periods. He is a leading writer on the life and work of the Victorian art-architect William Burges.

[edit] 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
Supernumery 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

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
The Reform Club (1973) article for and published by the Reform Club
William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981) John Murray
The Strange Genius of William Burges (1981) National Museum of Wales
Axel Haig and the Victorian Vision of the Middle Ages (with C.A. Lennox-Boyd) (1984) publisher unknown
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 Noveaux 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