- Rowland Mason Ordish
Rowland Mason Ordish (
11 April 1824 -1886) was an Englishengineer . He is most noted for his design of the Winter Garden, Dublin 1865 Albert Bridge, a crossing of theRiver Thames inLondon , completed in 1873, and for his detailed work on the single-span roof of London'sSt Pancras railway station .William Henry Le Feuvre from Jersey (1832? - ?) was a partner with Ordish, and the pair submitted plans for the department store De Gruchy's in St Helier, Jersey.
Born in
Melbourne, Derbyshire , Ordish was the son of a land agent and surveyor. In 1858 hepatent ed a system of bridge suspension which he used in the design of bridges across severalEurope an rivers such as the Neva atSt Petersburg .His other projects included:
*Derby market hall (1866)
*Franz-Joseph Bridge over theVltava ,Prague (1868 – demolished in 1947)
*Cavenagh Bridge,Singapore (1869)
*St Pancras Station roof (1869 – withWilliam Henry Barlow )
*Esplanade Mansions ,Mumbai ,India (1871)
*dome ofRoyal Albert Hall , London (1871)
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