Horace jones biography children

Jones designed this stunning creation with its turrets and bascules in the s to provide a much-needed Thames crossing for Victorian London. Jones was the architect of other popular City sights: the markets of Smithfield, Leadenhall and Billingsgate, the Temple Bar memorial with its fierce dragon, the City School of Music and Drama. He even had a hand in the construction of Holborn Viaduct.

Jones married Ann Elizabeth Patch, the daughter of John Patch, a barrister, on 15 April and had.

In fact, without him, London would be a very different place. He fought tough battles to achieve his work, with Parliament, with entrenched interests who resisted change, even with his own council. But he usually won. In the end he was knighted by Queen Victoria for services to the City.

Born on 3 February , Horace Jones was one of ten children of David Jones, an engineer by trade, and a school teacher, Sarah Ann née Garner.

So why is he not better known? One reason is that many people in the architectural profession look down on him. They see him as a local authority engineer, competent but lacking in artistry, and they do nothing to promote him. They consider that buildings like Tower Bridge belong to Disneyland rather than the realm of serious architecture. When Jones applied to become President of the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects, they turned him down as unsuitable.

It was only after he mounted a noisy protest that they elected him to the post. Another reason is that the Corporation of London has neglected him. There are no memorials to the man who is arguably their greatest architect: no plaques, no places named in his honour, no portraits or statues. The biography I published in is the first to appear in the nearly years since he died.