Joseph Hansom
English architect and inventor of the hansom cab
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Aloysius Hansom was a British architect working principally in the Gothic Revival style. He invented the Hansom cab and founded the eminent architectural journal The Builder in 1843. Career Hansom was born in the parish of St Martin's , York to a large Roman Catholic family and baptised as Josephus Aloysius Handsom. He was the brother of the architect Charles Francis Hansom and the uncle of Edward J. Hansom. He was apprenticed to his father, Henry, as a joiner, but showing an early aptitude for draughtsmanship and construction, he transferred his apprenticeship to a York architect named Matthew Philips, without informing the City of York. By around 1823 he had completed his apprenticeship and became a clerk in Philips' office.
