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Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-82)

Penelope Harris
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  • ISBN 9781918271133
  • Dimensions: 196 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Oct 2026
  • Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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In Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-82), An Unfortunate Genius, biographer Penelope Harris portrays an imaginative, eclectic architect of around two hundred buildings across the British Isles and into France, mainly for Catholic and gentry patrons. Starting from humble origins, but blessed with his upbringing in York, driven by passion and not afraid to defy convention, Hanson is now perhaps unfairly as well remembered as the inventor of the hansom cab as he is for his many wonderful architectural masterpieces. Using original research material such as the meticulous diaries of his clerk of works who recorded their daily building routine, Harris shows how that far from being a self-seeking egoist Hansom attempted to set up a college for budding architects and promoted building skills through his journal The Builder.
About Penelope Harris
With an early career in business management, Penelope Harris combined her interest in history with a family connection to Joseph Hansom, visiting most of his properties while researching his biography. She was a founder member of the Llanfyllin Workhouse History Group working with The National Archives, a member of the Victorian County History Group (Shrewsbury) and Education Officer of the Robert Owen Museum. Her PhD investigated the growth of the architectural profession in the nineteenth-century, using Hansom as a case study. The biography of John Welch, brother of Hansom’s partner, is scheduled for next year.

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