According to Wikipedia, Sir John Newenham Summerson, was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century. Early life John Summerson was born at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. His grandfather worked for the Darlington and Stockton Railway and founded the family foundry of Thomas Summerson and Sons in Darlington in 1869. After the premature death of his father, Samuel James Summerson, in 1907, Summerson travelled extensively in England and Europe with his mother Dorothea and then attended a prep school at Riber Castle in Derbyshire before going to Harrow and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, where he gained a bachelor's degree.
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Published Works
Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 (1963) (70)
The Classical Language of Architecture (1963) (69)
The Country seat: Studies in the history of the British country house presented to Sir John Summerson on his sixty-fifth birthday together with a select bibliography of his published writings; (1970) (4)
Sir John Soane, 1753-1837 (1952) (3)
Victorian Architecture Four Studies In Evaluation (1970) (3)
