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Horace Jones: Architect of Tower Bridge
By David Lascelles
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In 1881, Horace Jones, future architect of Tower Bridge, should have become President of the Royal Academy.
He thought so, at least. As he was the only vice-president in the race (there were two of them, but the other didn’t stand), it ought to have been a foregone conclusion. But a Stop Horace candidate was found in the person of George Edmund Street. Since
