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Robert Furneaux Jordan

John Robert Furneaux Jordan ARIBA was an English architect, architectural critic and novelist. He worked as an architect from 1928 to 1961, after which he became an academic, broadcaster and lecturer, writing many books on architecture.

Family
His father (John Furneaux Jordan, 1865–1956), grandfather (Thomas Furneaux Jordan) and great-grandfather were surgeons, as were an uncle, great uncle and cousin. His parents married in 1898; his mother Mildred (née Player) was the daughter of John Player of Edgbaston. She survived her husband. His brother was the journalist and prime ministerial press officer, Philip Jordan (1902–1951) Robert Jordan married Eira Furneaux Jordan in 1966. ==Works==
Works
Works on architecture The English Home (1959) • European Architecture in Colour: from the Greeks to the Nineteenth Century (1961) • Victorian Architecture (1966) • Le Corbusier (1972) • Concise History of Western Architecture (1984) Television documentaries The Rape of Utopia: the Disenchanted City (BBC, 1964) • Spirit of the Age - Eight Centuries of British Architecture (with Alec Clifton-Taylor, John Julius Norwich, Roy Strong, John Summerson, Mark Girouard, Patrick Nuttgens, Hugh Casson) (1976) Detective novels The Ingenious Mr Stone (1945): a detective story about the poisoning of the ultra-High Church headmistress of a girls' school in Devonshire • ''Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, of Epitaphs'' (1975): . A fictional account of an Anglican clergyman who becomes Pope, loosely based on Lytton Strachey's life of Cardinal Manning • ''Oh, Where are Bloody Mary's Earrings?'' (1972): concerns a pair of earrings given as a wedding present by Philip II of Spain to Mary I of England, and the times they were stolen or copied between then and the Edwardian period • The Homicidal Colonel (1970): concerns a psychopathic colonel from the American Deep South who reinvents himself as an English country squire and later disappears back to America, there committing a series of sex murders. • The Month of the Mangled Models (1977): a series of murders set at the time of the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements ==References==
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